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community.general.gitlab_group_variable – Creates, updates, or deletes GitLab groups variables

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_variable.

New in version 1.2.0: of community.general

Synopsis

• Creates a group variable if it does not exist.

• When a group variable does exist, its value will be updated when the values are different.

• Variables which are untouched in the playbook, but are not untouched in the GitLab group, they stay untouched (purge is false) or will be deleted (purge is true).

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.7

• python-gitlab python module

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
api_password string	The password to use for authentication against the API
api_token string / required	GitLab access token with API permissions.
api_url string	The resolvable endpoint for the API
api_username string	The username to use for authentication against the API
group string / required	The path and name of the group.
purge boolean	When set to true, delete all variables which are not untouched in the task. Choices: no ← (default) yes
state string	Create or delete group variable. Choices: present ← (default) absent
validate_certs boolean	Whether or not to validate SSL certs when supplying a https endpoint. Choices: no yes ← (default)
vars dictionary	When the list element is a simple key-value pair, set masked and protected to false. When the list element is a dict with the keys value, masked and protected, the user can have full control about whether a value should be masked, protected or both. Support for protected values requires GitLab >= 9.3. Support for masked values requires GitLab >= 11.10. A value must be a string or a number. Field variable_type must be a string with either env_var, which is the default, or file. When a value is masked, it must be in Base64 and have a length of at least 8 characters. See GitLab documentation on acceptable values for a masked variable (https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/variables/#masked-variables). Default: {}

Notes

Note

• Supports check_mode.

Examples

- name: Set or update some CI/CD variables
  community.general.gitlab_group_variable:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    group: scodeman/testgroup/
    purge: false
    vars:
      ACCESS_KEY_ID: abc123
      SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: 321cba

- name: Set or update some CI/CD variables
  community.general.gitlab_group_variable:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    group: scodeman/testgroup/
    purge: false
    vars:
      ACCESS_KEY_ID: abc123
      SECRET_ACCESS_KEY:
        value: 3214cbad
        masked: true
        protected: true
        variable_type: env_var

- name: Delete one variable
  community.general.gitlab_group_variable:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    group: scodeman/testgroup/
    state: absent
    vars:
      ACCESS_KEY_ID: abc123

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
group_variable dictionary	Four lists of the variablenames which were added, updated, removed or exist. Returned: always
added list / elements=string	A list of variables which were created. Returned: always Sample: “[\u0027ACCESS_KEY_ID\u0027, \u0027SECRET_ACCESS_KEY\u0027]”
removed list / elements=string	A list of variables which were deleted. Returned: always Sample: “[\u0027ACCESS_KEY_ID\u0027, \u0027SECRET_ACCESS_KEY\u0027]”
untouched list / elements=string	A list of variables which exist. Returned: always Sample: “[\u0027ACCESS_KEY_ID\u0027, \u0027SECRET_ACCESS_KEY\u0027]”
updated list / elements=string	A list of variables whose values were changed. Returned: always Sample: “[\u0027ACCESS_KEY_ID\u0027, \u0027SECRET_ACCESS_KEY\u0027]”

Authors

• Florent Madiot (@scodeman)