theforeman.foreman.image module – Manage Images

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 3.11.0).

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.image.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Create, update, and delete Images

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

architecture

string / required

architecture of the image

compute_resource

string / required

Compute resource the image is assigned to

image_password

string

Password that is used to login into the operating system

image_username

string / required

Username that is used to login into the operating system

name

string / required

Image name

operatingsystem

string / required

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.

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"

user_data

boolean

Image supports user_data

Choices:

  • false

  • true

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.

uuid

aliases: image_uuid

string / required

UUID or Marketplace URN of the operatingsystem image

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)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying the entity

diff_mode

Support: full

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode

Examples

- name: create Image for EC2
  theforeman.foreman.image:
     name: CentOS
     image_uuid: "ami-0ff760d16d9497662"
     image_username: "centos"
     operatingsystem: "CentOS 7"
     compute_resource: "AWS"
     architecture: "x86_64"

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

images

list / elements=dictionary

List of images.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Mark Hlawatschek (@hlawatschek) ATIX AG