community.general.ipa_host module – Manage FreeIPA host

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 4.8.3).

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.ipa_host.

Synopsis

  • Add, modify and delete an IPA host using IPA API.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

description

string

A description of this host.

force

boolean

Force host name even if not in DNS.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

fqdn

aliases: name

string / required

Full qualified domain name.

Can not be changed as it is the unique identifier.

ip_address

string

Add the host to DNS with this IP address.

ipa_host

string

IP or hostname of IPA server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_HOST will be used instead.

If both the environment variable IPA_HOST and the value are not specified in the task, then DNS will be used to try to discover the FreeIPA server.

The relevant entry needed in FreeIPA is the ‘ipa-ca’ entry.

If neither the DNS entry, nor the environment IPA_HOST, nor the value are available in the task, then the default value will be used.

Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.

Default: “ipa.example.com”

ipa_pass

string

Password of administrative user.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_PASS will be used instead.

Note that if the ‘urllib_gssapi’ library is available, it is possible to use GSSAPI to authenticate to FreeIPA.

If the environment variable KRB5CCNAME is available, the module will use this kerberos credentials cache to authenticate to the FreeIPA server.

If the environment variable KRB5_CLIENT_KTNAME is available, and KRB5CCNAME is not; the module will use this kerberos keytab to authenticate.

If GSSAPI is not available, the usage of ‘ipa_pass’ is required.

Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.

ipa_port

integer

Port of FreeIPA / IPA server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_PORT will be used instead.

If both the environment variable IPA_PORT and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.

Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.

Default: 443

ipa_prot

string

Protocol used by IPA server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_PROT will be used instead.

If both the environment variable IPA_PROT and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.

Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.

Choices:

  • http

  • https ← (default)

ipa_timeout

integer

Specifies idle timeout (in seconds) for the connection.

For bulk operations, you may want to increase this in order to avoid timeout from IPA server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_TIMEOUT will be used instead.

If both the environment variable IPA_TIMEOUT and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.

Default: 10

ipa_user

string

Administrative account used on IPA server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable IPA_USER will be used instead.

If both the environment variable IPA_USER and the value are not specified in the task, then default value is set.

Environment variable fallback mechanism is added in Ansible 2.5.

Default: “admin”

mac_address

aliases: macaddress

list / elements=string

List of Hardware MAC address(es) off this host.

If option is omitted MAC addresses will not be checked or changed.

If an empty list is passed all assigned MAC addresses will be removed.

MAC addresses that are already assigned but not passed will be removed.

ns_hardware_platform

aliases: nshardwareplatform

string

Host hardware platform (e.g. “Lenovo T61”)

ns_host_location

aliases: nshostlocation

string

Host location (e.g. “Lab 2”)

ns_os_version

aliases: nsosversion

string

Host operating system and version (e.g. “Fedora 9”)

random_password

boolean

Generate a random password to be used in bulk enrollment.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

state

string

State to ensure.

Choices:

  • absent

  • disabled

  • enabled

  • present ← (default)

update_dns

boolean

If set "True" with state as "absent", then removes DNS records of the host managed by FreeIPA DNS.

This option has no effect for states other than “absent”.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

user_certificate

aliases: usercertificate

list / elements=string

List of Base-64 encoded server certificates.

If option is omitted certificates will not be checked or changed.

If an empty list is passed all assigned certificates will be removed.

Certificates already assigned but not passed will be removed.

validate_certs

boolean

This only applies if ipa_prot is https.

If set to no, the SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to no used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Examples

- name: Ensure host is present
  community.general.ipa_host:
    name: host01.example.com
    description: Example host
    ip_address: 192.168.0.123
    ns_host_location: Lab
    ns_os_version: CentOS 7
    ns_hardware_platform: Lenovo T61
    mac_address:
    - "08:00:27:E3:B1:2D"
    - "52:54:00:BD:97:1E"
    state: present
    ipa_host: ipa.example.com
    ipa_user: admin
    ipa_pass: topsecret

- name: Generate a random password for bulk enrolment
  community.general.ipa_host:
    name: host01.example.com
    description: Example host
    ip_address: 192.168.0.123
    state: present
    ipa_host: ipa.example.com
    ipa_user: admin
    ipa_pass: topsecret
    validate_certs: False
    random_password: True

- name: Ensure host is disabled
  community.general.ipa_host:
    name: host01.example.com
    state: disabled
    ipa_host: ipa.example.com
    ipa_user: admin
    ipa_pass: topsecret

- name: Ensure that all user certificates are removed
  community.general.ipa_host:
    name: host01.example.com
    user_certificate: []
    ipa_host: ipa.example.com
    ipa_user: admin
    ipa_pass: topsecret

- name: Ensure host is absent
  community.general.ipa_host:
    name: host01.example.com
    state: absent
    ipa_host: ipa.example.com
    ipa_user: admin
    ipa_pass: topsecret

- name: Ensure host and its DNS record is absent
  community.general.ipa_host:
    name: host01.example.com
    state: absent
    ipa_host: ipa.example.com
    ipa_user: admin
    ipa_pass: topsecret
    update_dns: True

Return Values

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

Key

Description

host

dictionary

Host as returned by IPA API.

Returned: always

host_diff

list / elements=string

List of options that differ and would be changed

Returned: if check mode and a difference is found

Authors

  • Thomas Krahn (@Nosmoht)