awx.awx.settings module – Modify Automation Platform Controller settings.

Note

This module is part of the awx.awx collection (version 23.9.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: awx.awx.settings.

Synopsis

Aliases: tower_settings

Requirements

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

  • pyyaml

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

controller_config_file

aliases: tower_config_file

path

Path to the controller config file.

If provided, the other locations for config files will not be considered.

controller_host

aliases: tower_host

string

URL to your Automation Platform Controller instance.

If value not set, will try environment variable CONTROLLER_HOST and then config files

If value not specified by any means, the value of 127.0.0.1 will be used

controller_oauthtoken

aliases: tower_oauthtoken

any

added in awx.awx 3.7.0

The OAuth token to use.

This value can be in one of two formats.

A string which is the token itself. (i.e. bqV5txm97wqJqtkxlMkhQz0pKhRMMX)

A dictionary structure as returned by the token module.

If value not set, will try environment variable CONTROLLER_OAUTH_TOKEN and then config files

controller_password

aliases: tower_password

string

Password for your controller instance.

If value not set, will try environment variable CONTROLLER_PASSWORD and then config files

controller_username

aliases: tower_username

string

Username for your controller instance.

If value not set, will try environment variable CONTROLLER_USERNAME and then config files

name

string

Name of setting to modify

request_timeout

float

Specify the timeout Ansible should use in requests to the controller host.

Defaults to 10s, but this is handled by the shared module_utils code

settings

dictionary

A data structure to be sent into the settings endpoint

validate_certs

aliases: tower_verify_ssl

boolean

Whether to allow insecure connections to AWX.

If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

If value not set, will try environment variable CONTROLLER_VERIFY_SSL and then config files

Choices:

  • false

  • true

value

string

Value to be modified for given setting.

If given a non-string type, will make best effort to cast it to type API expects.

For better control over types, use the settings param instead.

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your host information.

  • config_file should be in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Examples

- name: Set the value of AWX_ISOLATION_BASE_PATH
  settings:
    name: AWX_ISOLATION_BASE_PATH
    value: "/tmp"
  register: testing_settings

- name: Set the value of AWX_ISOLATION_SHOW_PATHS
  settings:
    name: "AWX_ISOLATION_SHOW_PATHS"
    value: "'/var/lib/awx/projects/', '/tmp'"
  register: testing_settings

- name: Set the LDAP Auth Bind Password
  settings:
    name: "AUTH_LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD"
    value: "Password"
  no_log: true

- name: Set all the LDAP Auth Bind Params
  settings:
    settings:
      AUTH_LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD: "password"
      AUTH_LDAP_USER_ATTR_MAP:
        email: "mail"
        first_name: "givenName"
        last_name: "surname"

Authors

  • Nikhil Jain (@jainnikhil30)