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theforeman.foreman.role – Manage Roles

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.2.0).

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.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.role.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Create, update, and delete Roles

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
description
string
Description of the role
filters
list / elements=dictionary
Filters with permissions for this role
permissions
list / elements=string / required
List of permissions
search
string
Filter condition for the resources
locations
list / elements=string
List of locations the entity should be assigned to
name
string / required
The name of the role
organizations
list / elements=string
List of organizations the entity should be assigned to
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
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
State of the entity
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
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
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.

Examples

- name: role
  theforeman.foreman.role:
    name: "Provisioner"
    description: "Only provision on libvirt"
    locations:
      - "Uppsala"
    organizations:
      - "ACME"
    filters:
      - permissions:
          - view_hosts
        search: "owner_type = Usergroup and owner_id = 4"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    state: present

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
entity
dictionary
success
Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.
roles
list / elements=dictionary
success
List of roles.


Authors

  • Christoffer Reijer (@ephracis) Basalt AB

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/theforeman/foreman/role_module.html