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community.general.gitlab_group_members – Manage group members on GitLab Server

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.gitlab_group_members.

New in version 1.2.0: of community.general

Synopsis

• This module allows to add and remove members to/from a group, or change a member’s access level in a group on GitLab.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• python-gitlab python module <= 1.15.0

• administrator rights on the GitLab server

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
access_level string	The access level for the user. Required if state=present, user state is set to present. Mutually exclusive with gitlab_users_access. Choices: guest reporter developer maintainer owner
api_password string	The password to use for authentication against the API
api_token string / required	A personal access token to authenticate with the GitLab API.
api_url string	The resolvable endpoint for the API
api_username string	The username to use for authentication against the API
gitlab_group string / required	The name of the GitLab group the member is added to/removed from.
gitlab_user list / elements=string	A username or a list of usernames to add to/remove from the GitLab group. Mutually exclusive with gitlab_users_access.
gitlab_users_access list / elements=dictionary added in 3.6.0 of community.general	Provide a list of user to access level mappings. Every dictionary in this list specifies a user (by username) and the access level the user should have. Mutually exclusive with gitlab_user and access_level. Use together with purge_users to remove all users not specified here from the group.
access_level string / required	The access level for the user. Required if state=present, user state is set to present. Choices: guest reporter developer maintainer owner
name string / required	A username or a list of usernames to add to/remove from the GitLab group.
purge_users list / elements=string added in 3.6.0 of community.general	Adds/remove users of the given access_level to match the given gitlab_user/gitlab_users_access list. If omitted do not purge orphaned members. Is only used when state=present. Choices: guest reporter developer maintainer owner
state string	State of the member in the group. On present, it adds a user to a GitLab group. On absent, it removes a user from a GitLab group. Choices: present ← (default) absent
validate_certs boolean	Whether or not to validate SSL certs when supplying a https endpoint. Choices: no yes ← (default)

Notes

Note

• Supports check_mode.

Examples

- name: Add a user to a GitLab Group
  community.general.gitlab_group_members:
    api_url: 'https://gitlab.example.com'
    api_token: 'Your-Private-Token'
    gitlab_group: groupname
    gitlab_user: username
    access_level: developer
    state: present

- name: Remove a user from a GitLab Group
  community.general.gitlab_group_members:
    api_url: 'https://gitlab.example.com'
    api_token: 'Your-Private-Token'
    gitlab_group: groupname
    gitlab_user: username
    state: absent

- name: Add a list of Users to A GitLab Group
  community.general.gitlab_group_members:
    api_url: 'https://gitlab.example.com'
    api_token: 'Your-Private-Token'
    gitlab_group: groupname
    gitlab_user:
      - user1
      - user2
    access_level: developer
    state: present

- name: Add a list of Users with Dedicated Access Levels to A GitLab Group
  community.general.gitlab_group_members:
    api_url: 'https://gitlab.example.com'
    api_token: 'Your-Private-Token'
    gitlab_group: groupname
    gitlab_users_access:
      - name: user1
        access_level: developer
      - name: user2
        access_level: maintainer
    state: present

- name: Add a user, remove all others which might be on this access level
  community.general.gitlab_group_members:
    api_url: 'https://gitlab.example.com'
    api_token: 'Your-Private-Token'
    gitlab_group: groupname
    gitlab_user: username
    access_level: developer
    pruge_users: developer
    state: present

- name: Remove a list of Users with Dedicated Access Levels to A GitLab Group
  community.general.gitlab_group_members:
    api_url: 'https://gitlab.example.com'
    api_token: 'Your-Private-Token'
    gitlab_group: groupname
    gitlab_users_access:
      - name: user1
        access_level: developer
      - name: user2
        access_level: maintainer
    state: absent

Authors

• Zainab Alsaffar (@zanssa)