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theforeman.foreman.content_upload module – Upload content to a repository

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.content_upload.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Attributes
Notes
Examples

Synopsis

Allows the upload of content to a repository

Aliases: katello_upload

Requirements

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

python-debian (For deb Package upload)
requests
rpm (For rpm upload)

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
organization string / required	Organization that the entity is in
ostree_repository_name string	Name of repository within the OSTree archive. Required for OSTree uploads.
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.
product string / required	Product to which the repository lives in
repository string / required	Repository to upload file in to
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.
src aliases: file path / required	File (on the remote/target machine) to upload
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

Notes

Note

Currently only uploading to deb, RPM, OSTree & file repositories is supported
For anything but file repositories, a supporting library must be installed. See Requirements.
OSTree content upload is not idempotent - running mutliple times will attempt to upload the content unit.

Examples

- name: "Upload my.rpm"
  theforeman.foreman.content_upload:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    src: "my.rpm"
    repository: "Build RPMs"
    product: "My Product"
    organization: "Default Organization"

- name: "Upload ostree-archive.tar"
  theforeman.foreman.content_upload:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    src: "ostree_archive.tar"
    repository: "My OStree Repository"
    product: "My Product"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    ostree_repository_name: "small"

Authors

Eric D Helms (@ehelms)

Collection links

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2025 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/theforeman/foreman/content_upload_module.html