community.general.jira module – create and modify issues in a JIRA instance

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.jira.

Synopsis

  • Create and modify issues in a JIRA instance.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

account_id

string

added in 2.5.0 of community.general

Sets the account identifier for the assignee when operation is create, transition or edit.

Note that JIRA may not allow changing field values on specific transitions or states.

assignee

string

Sets the the assignee when operation is create, transition or edit.

Recent versions of JIRA no longer accept a user name as a user identifier. In that case, use account_id instead.

Note that JIRA may not allow changing field values on specific transitions or states.

attachment

dictionary

added in 2.5.0 of community.general

Information about the attachment being uploaded.

content

string

The Base64 encoded contents of the file to attach. If not specified, the contents of filename will be used instead.

filename

path / required

The path to the file to upload (from the remote node) or, if content is specified, the filename to use for the attachment.

mimetype

string

The MIME type to supply for the upload. If not specified, best-effort detection will be done.

comment

string

The comment text to add.

Note that JIRA may not allow changing field values on specific transitions or states.

comment_visibility

dictionary

added in 3.2.0 of community.general

type

string / required

Use type to specify which of the JIRA visibility restriction types will be used.

Choices:

  • group

  • role

value

string / required

Use value to specify value corresponding to the type of visibility restriction. For example name of the group or role.

description

string

The issue description, where appropriate.

Note that JIRA may not allow changing field values on specific transitions or states.

fields

dictionary

This is a free-form data structure that can contain arbitrary data. This is passed directly to the JIRA REST API (possibly after merging with other required data, as when passed to create). See examples for more information, and the JIRA REST API for the structure required for various fields.

When passed to comment, the data structure is merged at the first level since community.general 4.6.0. Useful to add JIRA properties for example.

Note that JIRA may not allow changing field values on specific transitions or states.

inwardissue

string

Set issue from which link will be created.

issue

aliases: ticket

string

An existing issue key to operate on.

issuetype

string

The issue type, for issue creation.

jql

string

added in 0.2.0 of community.general

Query JIRA in JQL Syntax, e.g. ‘CMDB Hostname’=’test.example.com’.

linktype

string

Set type of link, when action ‘link’ selected.

maxresults

integer

added in 0.2.0 of community.general

Limit the result of operation=search. If no value is specified, the default jira limit will be used.

Used when operation=search only, ignored otherwise.

operation

aliases: command

string / required

The operation to perform.

Choices:

  • attach

  • comment

  • create

  • edit

  • fetch

  • link

  • search

  • transition

  • update

outwardissue

string

Set issue to which link will be created.

password

string

The password to log-in with.

Must be used with username. Mutually exclusive with token.

project

string

The project for this operation. Required for issue creation.

status

string

Only used when operation is transition, and a bit of a misnomer, it actually refers to the transition name.

summary

string

The issue summary, where appropriate.

Note that JIRA may not allow changing field values on specific transitions or states.

timeout

float

Set timeout, in seconds, on requests to JIRA API.

Default: 10

token

string

added in 4.2.0 of community.general

The personal access token to log-in with.

Mutually exclusive with username and password.

uri

string / required

Base URI for the JIRA instance.

username

string

The username to log-in with.

Must be used with password. Mutually exclusive with token.

validate_certs

boolean

Require valid SSL certificates (set to false if you’d like to use self-signed certificates)

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • Currently this only works with basic-auth, or tokens.

  • To use with JIRA Cloud, pass the login e-mail as the username and the API token as password.

Examples

# Create a new issue and add a comment to it:
- name: Create an issue
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    project: ANS
    operation: create
    summary: Example Issue
    description: Created using Ansible
    issuetype: Task
  args:
    fields:
        customfield_13225: "test"
        customfield_12931: {"value": "Test"}
  register: issue

- name: Comment on issue
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    issue: '{{ issue.meta.key }}'
    operation: comment
    comment: A comment added by Ansible

- name: Comment on issue with restricted visibility
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    issue: '{{ issue.meta.key }}'
    operation: comment
    comment: A comment added by Ansible
    comment_visibility:
      type: role
      value: Developers

- name: Comment on issue with property to mark it internal
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    issue: '{{ issue.meta.key }}'
    operation: comment
    comment: A comment added by Ansible
    fields:
      properties:
        - key: 'sd.public.comment'
          value:
            internal: true

# Assign an existing issue using edit
- name: Assign an issue using free-form fields
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    issue: '{{ issue.meta.key}}'
    operation: edit
    assignee: ssmith

# Create an issue with an existing assignee
- name: Create an assigned issue
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    project: ANS
    operation: create
    summary: Assigned issue
    description: Created and assigned using Ansible
    issuetype: Task
    assignee: ssmith

# Edit an issue
- name: Set the labels on an issue using free-form fields
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    issue: '{{ issue.meta.key }}'
    operation: edit
  args:
    fields:
        labels:
          - autocreated
          - ansible

# Updating a field using operations: add, set & remove
- name: Change the value of a Select dropdown
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    issue: '{{ issue.meta.key }}'
    operation: update
  args:
    fields:
      customfield_12931: [ {'set': {'value': 'Virtual'}} ]
      customfield_13820: [ {'set': {'value':'Manually'}} ]
  register: cmdb_issue
  delegate_to: localhost


# Retrieve metadata for an issue and use it to create an account
- name: Get an issue
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    project: ANS
    operation: fetch
    issue: ANS-63
  register: issue

# Search for an issue
# You can limit the search for specific fields by adding optional args. Note! It must be a dict, hence, lastViewed: null
- name: Search for an issue
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    project: ANS
    operation: search
    maxresults: 10
    jql: project=cmdb AND cf[13225]="test"
  args:
    fields:
      lastViewed: null
  register: issue

- name: Create a unix account for the reporter
  become: true
  user:
    name: '{{ issue.meta.fields.creator.name }}'
    comment: '{{ issue.meta.fields.creator.displayName }}'

# You can get list of valid linktypes at /rest/api/2/issueLinkType
# url of your jira installation.
- name: Create link from HSP-1 to MKY-1
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    operation: link
    linktype: Relates
    inwardissue: HSP-1
    outwardissue: MKY-1

# Transition an issue
- name: Resolve the issue
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    issue: '{{ issue.meta.key }}'
    operation: transition
    status: Resolve Issue
    account_id: 112233445566778899aabbcc
    fields:
      resolution:
        name: Done
      description: I am done! This is the last description I will ever give you.

# Attach a file to an issue
- name: Attach a file
  community.general.jira:
    uri: '{{ server }}'
    username: '{{ user }}'
    password: '{{ pass }}'
    issue: HSP-1
    operation: attach
    attachment:
      filename: topsecretreport.xlsx

Authors

  • Steve Smith (@tarka)

  • Per Abildgaard Toft (@pertoft)

  • Brandon McNama (@DWSR)