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theforeman.foreman.content_view_version module – Manage Content View Versions

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_view_version.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Publish, Promote or Remove a Content View Version

Aliases: katello_content_view_version

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

content_view

string / required

Name of the content view

current_lifecycle_environment

string

The lifecycle environment that is already associated with the content view version

Helpful for promoting a content view version

description

string

Description of the Content View Version

force_promote

aliases: force

boolean

Force content view promotion and bypass lifecycle environment restriction

Choices:

  • false ← (default)
  • true

force_yum_metadata_regeneration

boolean

Force metadata regeneration when performing Publish and Promote tasks

Choices:

  • false ← (default)
  • true

lifecycle_environments

list / elements=string

The lifecycle environments the Content View Version should be in.

organization

string / required

Organization that the entity is in

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)

version

string

The content view version number (i.e. 1.0)

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

  • You cannot use this to remove a Content View Version from a Lifecycle environment, you should promote another version first.
  • For idempotency you must specify either version or current_lifecycle_environment.

Examples

- name: "Ensure content view version 2.0 is in Test & Pre Prod"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view_version:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    content_view: "CV 1"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    version: "2.0"
    lifecycle_environments:
      - Test
      - Pre Prod

- name: "Ensure content view version in Test is also in Pre Prod"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view_version:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    content_view: "CV 1"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    current_lifecycle_environment: Test
    lifecycle_environments:
      - Pre Prod

- name: "Publish a content view, not idempotent"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view_version:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    content_view: "CV 1"
    organization: "Default Organization"

- name: "Publish a content view and promote that version to Library & Dev, not idempotent"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view_version:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    content_view: "CV 1"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    lifecycle_environments:
      - Library
      - Dev

- name: "Ensure content view version 1.0 doesn't exist"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view_version:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    content_view: "Web Servers"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    version: "1.0"
    state: absent

# Obtain information about a Content View and its versions
- name: find all CVs
  theforeman.foreman.resource_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    resource: content_views
    search: 'name="Example Content"'
  register: example_content

# Obtain more details about all versions of a specific Content View
- name: "find content view versions of {{ cv_id }}"
  theforeman.foreman.resource_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    resource: content_view_versions
    params:
      content_view_id: "{{ example_content.resources[0].id }}"
  register: version_information

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

content_view_versions

list / elements=dictionary

List of content view versions.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Sean O’Keeffe (@sean797)

© 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_view_version_module.html