theforeman.foreman.location – Manage Locations

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.location.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Manage Locations

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

name

string / required

Name of the Location

organizations

list / elements=string

List of organizations the location should be assigned to

parameters

list / elements=dictionary

Entity domain specific host parameters

name

string / required

Name of the parameter

parameter_type

string

Type of the parameter

Choices:

  • string ← (default)

  • boolean

  • integer

  • real

  • array

  • hash

  • yaml

  • json

value

raw / required

Value of the parameter

parent

string

Title of a parent Location for nesting

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.

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.

state

string

State of the entity

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • 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

# Create a simple location
- name: "Create CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location"
    organizations:
      - "Default Organization"
    state: present

# Create a nested location
- name: "Create Nested CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Nested location"
    parent: "My Cool New Location"
    state: present

# Create a new nested location with parent included in name
- name: "Create New Nested Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location/New nested location"
    state: present

# Move a nested location to another parent
- name: "Create Nested CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location/New nested location"
    parent: "My Cool New Location/My Nested location"
    state: present

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

locations

list / elements=dictionary

List of locations.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Matthias M Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX AG