community.general.rhsm_release module – Set or Unset RHSM Release version

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 7.5.2).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.rhsm_release.

Synopsis

  • Sets or unsets the release version used by RHSM repositories.

Aliases: packaging.os.rhsm_release

Requirements

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

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6+ with subscription-manager installed

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

release

string

RHSM release version to use.

To unset either pass null for this option, or omit this option.

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

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

Notes

Note

  • This module will fail on an unregistered system. Use the community.general.redhat_subscription module to register a system prior to setting the RHSM release.

  • It is possible to interact with subscription-manager only as root, so root permissions are required to successfully run this module.

Examples

# Set release version to 7.1
- name: Set RHSM release version
  community.general.rhsm_release:
    release: "7.1"

# Set release version to 6Server
- name: Set RHSM release version
  community.general.rhsm_release:
    release: "6Server"

# Unset release version
- name: Unset RHSM release release
  community.general.rhsm_release:
    release: null

Return Values

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

Key

Description

current_release

string

The current RHSM release version value

Returned: success

Authors

  • Sean Myers (@seandst)