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theforeman.foreman.snapshot module – Manage Snapshots

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 3.15.0).

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.snapshot.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

• Manage Snapshots for Host Entities

• This module can create, update, revert and delete snapshots

• This module requires the foreman_snapshot_management plugin set up in the server

• See: https://github.com/ATIX-AG/foreman_snapshot_management

Aliases: foreman_snapshot

Requirements

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

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
description string	Description of Snapshot
host string / required	Name of related Host
id string	Id of Snapshot
include_ram boolean	Option to add RAM (only available for VMWare compute-resource) Choices: false true
name string / required	Name of Snapshot
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 Snapshot Choices: "present" ← (default) "reverted" "absent" "new_snapshot"
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: "Create a Snapshot"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    state: present

- name: "Create Snapshots with same name"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    state: new_snapshot

- name: "Update a Snapshot"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    description: "description of snapshot"
    state: present

- name: "Update a Snapshot with same name"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    description: "description of snapshot"
    state: present
    id: "snapshot-id"

- name: "Revert a Snapshot"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    state: reverted

- name: "Delete a Snapshot"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    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
snapshots list / elements=dictionary	List of snapshots. Returned: success

Authors

• Manisha Singhal (@Manisha15) ATIX AG

Collection links

• Issue Tracker
• Homepage
• Repository (Sources)