community.general.ipa_subca module – Manage FreeIPA Lightweight Sub Certificate Authorities.

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_subca.

Synopsis

  • Add, modify, enable, disable and delete an IPA Lightweight Sub Certificate Authorities using IPA API.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

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”

state

string

State to ensure.

State ‘disable’ and ‘enable’ is available for FreeIPA 4.4.2 version and onwards.

Choices:

  • absent

  • disabled

  • enabled

  • present ← (default)

subca_desc

string

The Sub Certificate Authority’s description.

subca_name

aliases: name

string / required

The Sub Certificate Authority name which needs to be managed.

subca_subject

string / required

The Sub Certificate Authority’s Subject. e.g., ‘CN=SampleSubCA1,O=testrelm.test’.

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 IPA Sub CA is present
  community.general.ipa_subca:
    ipa_host: spider.example.com
    ipa_pass: Passw0rd!
    state: present
    subca_name: AnsibleSubCA1
    subca_subject: 'CN=AnsibleSubCA1,O=example.com'
    subca_desc: Ansible Sub CA

- name: Ensure that IPA Sub CA is removed
  community.general.ipa_subca:
    ipa_host: spider.example.com
    ipa_pass: Passw0rd!
    state: absent
    subca_name: AnsibleSubCA1

- name: Ensure that IPA Sub CA is disabled
  community.general.ipa_subca:
    ipa_host: spider.example.com
    ipa_pass: Passw0rd!
    state: disable
    subca_name: AnsibleSubCA1

Return Values

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

Key

Description

subca

dictionary

IPA Sub CA record as returned by IPA API.

Returned: always

Authors

  • Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)