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theforeman.foreman.content_view – Manage Content Views

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.2.0).

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 theforeman.foreman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.content_view.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

• Create and manage content views

Requirements

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

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
auto_publish boolean	Auto publish composite view when a new version of a component content view is created. Also note auto publish will only happen when the component is marked “latest”. Choices: no ← (default) yes
components list / elements=dictionary	List of content views to includes content_view and either version or latest. Ignored if composite=False.
content_view string / required	Content View name to be added to the Composite Content View
content_view_version aliases: version string	Version of the Content View to add
latest boolean	Always use the latest Content View Version Choices: no ← (default) yes
composite boolean	A composite view contains other content views. Choices: no ← (default) yes
description string	Description of the Content View
name string / required	Name of the Content View
organization string / required	Organization that the entity is in
password string / required	Password of the user accessing the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_PASSWORD will be used instead.
repositories list / elements=dictionary	List of repositories that include name and product. Cannot be combined with composite=True.
name string / required	Name of the Repository to be added
product string / required	Product of the Repository to be added
server_url string / required	URL of the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_SERVER_URL will be used instead.
solve_dependencies boolean	Solve RPM dependencies by default on Content View publish Choices: no yes
state string	State of the entity present_with_defaults will ensure the entity exists, but won’t update existing ones Choices: present ← (default) present_with_defaults absent
username string / required	Username accessing the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_USERNAME will be used instead.
validate_certs boolean	Whether or not to verify the TLS certificates of the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead. Choices: no yes ← (default)

Examples

- name: "Create or update Fedora content view"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "Fedora CV"
    organization: "My Cool new Organization"
    repositories:
      - name: 'Fedora 26'
        product: 'Fedora'

- name: "Create a composite content view"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "Fedora CCV"
    organization: "My Cool new Organization"
    composite: true
    auto_publish: true
    components:
      - content_view: Fedora CV
        content_view_version: 1.0
      - content_view: Internal CV
        latest: true

Return Values

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

Key	Description
entity dictionary	Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type. Returned: success
content_views list / elements=dictionary	List of content views. Returned: success

Authors

• Eric D Helms (@ehelms)