theforeman.foreman.location module – Manage Locations

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 4.2.0).

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.location.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Manage Locations

Aliases: foreman_location

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

description

string

added in theforeman.foreman 4.2.0

Description of the Location

ignore_types

aliases: select_all_types

list / elements=string

added in theforeman.foreman 3.8.0

List of resources types that will be automatically associated

name

string / required

Name of the Location

organizations

list / elements=string

List of organizations the location should be assigned to

parameters

list / elements=dictionary

Entity domain specific host parameters

name

string / required

Name of the parameter

parameter_type

string

Type of the parameter

Choices:

  • "string" ← (default)

  • "boolean"

  • "integer"

  • "real"

  • "array"

  • "hash"

  • "yaml"

  • "json"

value

any / required

Value of the parameter

parent

string

Title of a parent Location for nesting

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

# Create a simple location
- name: "Create CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location"
    organizations:
      - "Default Organization"
    state: present

# Create a nested location
- name: "Create Nested CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Nested location"
    parent: "My Cool New Location"
    state: present

# Create a new nested location with parent included in name
- name: "Create New Nested Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location/New nested location"
    state: present

# Move a nested location to another parent
- name: "Create Nested CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location/New nested location"
    parent: "My Cool New Location/My Nested location"
    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

locations

list / elements=dictionary

List of locations.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Matthias M Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX AG