theforeman.foreman.hostgroup module – Manage Hostgroups

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 3.7.0).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Create, update, and delete Hostgroups

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

activation_keys

string

Activation Keys used for deployment.

Comma separated list.

Only available for Katello installations.

ansible_roles

list / elements=string

added in theforeman.foreman 2.1.0

A list of ansible roles to associate with the hostgroup.

The foreman-ansible plugin must be installed to use this parameter.

architecture

string

Architecture name

compute_profile

string

Compute profile name

compute_resource

string

Compute resource name

config_groups

list / elements=string

Config groups list

content_source

string

Content source.

Only available for Katello installations.

content_view

string

Content view.

Only available for Katello installations.

description

string

Description of hostgroup

domain

string

Domain name

environment

string

Puppet environment name

kickstart_repository

string

Kickstart repository name.

You need to provide this to use the “Synced Content” feature.

Mutually exclusive with medium.

Only available for Katello installations.

lifecycle_environment

string

Lifecycle environment.

Only available for Katello installations.

locations

list / elements=string

List of locations the entity should be assigned to

medium

aliases: media

string

Medium name

Mutually exclusive with kickstart_repository.

name

string / required

Name of hostgroup

openscap_proxy

string

OpenSCAP proxy name.

Only available when the OpenSCAP plugin is installed.

operatingsystem

string

Operating systems are looked up by their title which is composed as “<name> <major>.<minor>”.

You can omit the version part as long as you only have one operating system by that name.

organization

string

Organization for scoped resources attached to the hostgroup.

Only used for Katello installations.

This organization will implicitly be added to the organizations parameter if needed.

organizations

list / elements=string

List of organizations the entity should be assigned to

parameters

list / elements=dictionary

Hostgroup 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

any / required

Value of the parameter

parent

string

Hostgroup parent name

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.

ptable

string

Partition table name

puppet_ca_proxy

string

Puppet CA proxy name

puppet_proxy

string

Puppet server proxy name

puppetclasses

list / elements=string

List of puppet classes to include in this host group. Must exist for hostgroup’s puppet environment.

pxe_loader

string

PXE Bootloader

Choices:

  • "PXELinux BIOS"

  • "PXELinux UEFI"

  • "Grub UEFI"

  • "Grub2 BIOS"

  • "Grub2 ELF"

  • "Grub2 UEFI"

  • "Grub2 UEFI SecureBoot"

  • "Grub2 UEFI HTTP"

  • "Grub2 UEFI HTTPS"

  • "Grub2 UEFI HTTPS SecureBoot"

  • "iPXE Embedded"

  • "iPXE UEFI HTTP"

  • "iPXE Chain BIOS"

  • "iPXE Chain UEFI"

  • "None"

realm

string

Realm name

root_pass

string

Root password.

Will result in the entity always being updated, as the current password cannot be retrieved.

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"

subnet

string

IPv4 Subnet name

subnet6

string

IPv6 Subnet name

updated_name

string

New name of hostgroup. When this parameter is set, the module will not be idempotent.

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:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Examples

- name: "Create a Hostgroup"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    name: "new_hostgroup"
    architecture: "architecture_name"
    operatingsystem: "operatingsystem_name"
    medium: "media_name"
    ptable: "Partition_table_name"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    state: present

- name: "Update a Hostgroup"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    name: "new_hostgroup"
    architecture: "updated_architecture_name"
    operatingsystem: "updated_operatingsystem_name"
    organizations:
      - Org One
      - Org Two
    locations:
      - Loc One
      - Loc Two
      - Loc One/Nested loc
    medium: "updated_media_name"
    ptable: "updated_Partition_table_name"
    root_pass: "password"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    state: present

- name: "My nested hostgroup"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    parent: "new_hostgroup"
    name: "my nested hostgroup"

- name: "My hostgroup with some proxies"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    name: "my hostgroup"
    environment: production
    puppet_proxy: puppet-proxy.example.com
    puppet_ca_proxy: puppet-proxy.example.com
    openscap_proxy: openscap-proxy.example.com

- name: "My katello related hostgroup"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    organization: "My Org"
    name: "kt hostgroup"
    content_source: capsule.example.com
    lifecycle_environment: "Production"
    content_view: "My content view"
    parameters:
      - name: "kt_activation_keys"
        value: "my_prod_ak"

- name: "Delete a Hostgroup"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    name: "new_hostgroup"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    state: absent

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

hostgroups

list / elements=dictionary

List of hostgroups.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Manisha Singhal (@Manisha15) ATIX AG

  • Baptiste Agasse (@bagasse)