Documentation

tower_user - create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower user.

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • python >= 2.6
  • ansible-tower-cli >= 3.0.3

Options

parameter required default choices comments
auditor
 no
User is a system wide auditor.
email
 yes
Email address of the user.
first_name
 no
First name of the user.
last_name
 no
Last name of the user.
password
 no
Password of the user.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
Desired state of the resource.
superuser
 no
User is a system wide administator.
tower_config_file
 no
Path to the Tower config file. See notes.
tower_host
 no
URL to your Tower instance.
tower_password
 no
Password for your Tower instance.
tower_username
 no
Username for your Tower instance.
tower_verify_ssl
 no True
Dis/allow insecure connections to Tower. If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
username
 yes
The username of the user.

Examples

- name: Add tower user
  tower_user:
    username: jdoe
    password: foobarbaz
    email: jdoe@example.org
    first_name: John
    last_name: Doe
    state: present
    tower_config_file: "~/tower_cli.cfg"

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your Tower host information.
  • config_file should contain Tower configuration in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

For help in developing on modules, should you be so inclined, please read Community Information & Contributing, Testing Ansible and Developing Modules.