community.general.gitlab_milestone module – Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Milestones belonging to project or group

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.7).

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.gitlab_milestone.

New in community.general 8.3.0

Synopsis

• When a milestone does not exist, it will be created.

• When a milestone does exist, its value will be updated when the values are different.

• Milestones can be purged.

Requirements

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

• python-gitlab python module

• requests (Python library https://pypi.org/project/requests/)

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
api_job_token string added in community.general 4.2.0	GitLab CI job token for logging in.
api_oauth_token string added in community.general 4.2.0	GitLab OAuth token for logging in.
api_password string	The password to use for authentication against the API.
api_token string	GitLab access token with API permissions.
api_url string	The resolvable endpoint for the API.
api_username string	The username to use for authentication against the API.
ca_path string added in community.general 8.1.0	The CA certificates bundle to use to verify GitLab server certificate.
group string	The path of the group. Either this or project is required.
milestones list / elements=dictionary	A list of dictionaries that represents gitlab project’s or group’s milestones. Default: []
description string	Milestone’s description.
due_date string	Milestone due date in YYYY-MM-DD format.
start_date string	Milestone start date in YYYY-MM-DD format.
title string / required	The name of the milestone.
project string	The path and name of the project. Either this or group is required.
purge boolean	When set to true, delete all milestone which are not mentioned in the task. Choices: false ← (default) true
state string	Create or delete milestone. Choices: "present" ← (default) "absent"
validate_certs boolean	Whether or not to validate SSL certs when supplying a HTTPS endpoint. Choices: false true ← (default)

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.

Examples

# same project's task can be executed for group
- name: Create one milestone
  community.general.gitlab_milestone:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    milestones:
      - title: milestone_one
        start_date: "2024-01-04"
    state: present

- name: Create many group milestones
  community.general.gitlab_milestone:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    group: "group1"
    milestones:
      - title: milestone_one
        start_date: "2024-01-04"
        description: this is a milestone
        due_date: "2024-02-04"
      - title: milestone_two
    state: present

- name: Create many project milestones
  community.general.gitlab_milestone:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    milestones:
      - title: milestone_one
        start_date: "2024-01-04"
        description: this is a milestone
        due_date: "2024-02-04"
      - title: milestone_two
    state: present

- name: Set or update some milestones
  community.general.gitlab_milestone:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    milestones:
      - title: milestone_one
        start_date: "2024-05-04"
    state: present

- name: Add milestone in check mode
  community.general.gitlab_milestone:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    milestones:
      - title: milestone_one
        start_date: "2024-05-04"
    check_mode: true

- name: Delete milestone
  community.general.gitlab_milestone:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    milestones:
      - title: milestone_one
    state: absent

- name: Purge all milestones
  community.general.gitlab_milestone:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    purge: true

- name: Delete many milestones
  community.general.gitlab_milestone:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    state: absent
    milestones:
      - title: milestone-abc123
      - title: milestone-two

Return Values

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

Key	Description
milestones dictionary	Four lists of the milestones which were added, updated, removed or exist. Returned: success
added list / elements=string	A list of milestones which were created. Returned: always Sample: ["abcd", "milestone-one"]
removed list / elements=string	A list of milestones which were deleted. Returned: always Sample: ["defg", "new-milestone"]
untouched list / elements=string	A list of milestones which exist. Returned: always Sample: ["defg", "new-milestone"]
updated list / elements=string	A list pre-existing milestones whose values have been set. Returned: always Sample: ["defg", "new-milestone"]
milestones_obj dictionary	API object. Returned: success

Authors

• Gabriele Pongelli (@gpongelli)

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