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theforeman.foreman.role module – Manage Roles

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.role.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

• Create, update, and delete Roles

Requirements

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

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
description string	Description of the role
filters list / elements=dictionary	Filters with permissions for this role
permissions list / elements=string / required	List of permissions
search string	Filter condition for the resources
locations list / elements=string	List of locations the entity should be assigned to
name string / required	The name of the role
organizations list / elements=string	List of organizations the entity should be assigned to
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"
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)

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: role
  theforeman.foreman.role:
    name: "Provisioner"
    description: "Only provision on libvirt"
    locations:
      - "Uppsala"
    organizations:
      - "ACME"
    filters:
      - permissions:
          - view_hosts
        search: "owner_type = Usergroup and owner_id = 4"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    state: present

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
roles list / elements=dictionary	List of roles. Returned: success

Authors

• Christoffer Reijer (@ephracis) Basalt AB

Collection links

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