community.general.iso_customize module – Add/remove/change files in ISO file

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.0.1).

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.iso_customize.

New in community.general 5.8.0

Synopsis

  • This module is used to add/remove/change files in ISO file.

  • The file inside ISO will be overwritten if it exists by option add_files.

Requirements

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

  • pycdlib

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

add_files

list / elements=dictionary

Allows to add and replace files in the ISO file.

Will create intermediate folders inside the ISO file when they do not exist.

Default: []

dest_file

string / required

The absolute path of the file inside the ISO file.

src_file

path / required

The path with file name on the machine the module is executed on.

delete_files

list / elements=string

Absolute paths for files inside the ISO file that should be removed.

Default: []

dest_iso

path / required

The path of the customized ISO file.

src_iso

path / required

This is the path of source ISO file.

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

  • The pycdlib library states it supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+.

  • The function add_file in pycdlib will overwrite the existing file in ISO with type ISO9660 / Rock Ridge 1.12 / Joliet / UDF. But it will not overwrite the existing file in ISO with Rock Ridge 1.09 / 1.10. So we take workaround “delete the existing file and then add file for ISO with Rock Ridge”.

Examples

- name: "Customize ISO file"
  community.general.iso_customize:
    src_iso: "/path/to/ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso"
    dest_iso: "/path/to/ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64-customized.iso"
    delete_files:
      - "/boot.catalog"
    add_files:
      - src_file: "/path/to/grub.cfg"
        dest_file: "/boot/grub/grub.cfg"
      - src_file: "/path/to/ubuntu.seed"
        dest_file: "/preseed/ubuntu.seed"
  register: customize_iso_result

Return Values

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

Key

Description

dest_iso

string

Path of the customized ISO file.

Returned: on success

Sample: "/path/to/customized.iso"

src_iso

string

Path of source ISO file.

Returned: on success

Sample: "/path/to/file.iso"

Authors

  • Yuhua Zou (@ZouYuhua)