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awx.awx.tower_group – create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower group.

Note

This plugin is part of the awx.awx collection.

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install awx.awx.

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

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
children
list / elements=string
List of groups that should be nested inside in this group.

aliases: groups
description
string
The description to use for the group.
hosts
list / elements=string
List of hosts that should be put in this group.
inventory
string / required
Inventory the group should be made a member of.
name
string / required
The name to use for the group.
new_name
string
A new name for this group (for renaming)
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Desired state of the resource.
tower_config_file
path
Path to the Tower or AWX config file.
If provided, the other locations for config files will not be considered.
tower_host
string
URL to your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_HOST and then config files
If value not specified by any means, the value of 127.0.0.1 will be used
tower_oauthtoken
raw
added in 3.7 of awx.awx
The Tower 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 tower_token module.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_OAUTH_TOKEN and then config files
tower_password
string
Password for your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_PASSWORD and then config files
tower_username
string
Username for your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_USERNAME and then config files
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether to allow insecure connections to Tower or 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 TOWER_VERIFY_SSL and then config files

aliases: tower_verify_ssl
variables
dictionary
Variables to use for the group.

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

Examples

- name: Add tower group
  tower_group:
    name: localhost
    description: "Local Host Group"
    inventory: "Local Inventory"
    state: present
    tower_config_file: "~/tower_cli.cfg"

Authors

  • Wayne Witzel III (@wwitzel3)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/awx/awx/tower_group_module.html