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tower_credential_type – Create, update, or destroy custom Ansible Tower credential type

New in version 2.7.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Status

Synopsis

Create, update, or destroy Ansible Tower credential type. See https://www.ansible.com/tower for an overview.

Requirements

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

ansible-tower-cli >= 3.0.2

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
description -		The description of the credential type to give more detail about it.
injectors -		Enter injectors using either JSON or YAML syntax. Refer to the Ansible Tower documentation for example syntax.
inputs -		Enter inputs using either JSON or YAML syntax. Refer to the Ansible Tower documentation for example syntax.
kind -	Choices: ssh vault net scm cloud insights	The type of credential type being added. Note that only cloud and net can be used for creating credential types. Refer to the Ansible for more information.
name - / required		The name of the credential type.
state -	Choices: present ← absent	Desired state of the resource.
tower_config_file path		Path to the Tower config file.
tower_host string		URL to your Tower instance.
tower_password string		Password for your Tower instance.
tower_username string		Username for your Tower instance.
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no yes	Tower option to avoid certificates check. aliases: tower_verify_ssl

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

- tower_credential_type:
    name: Nexus
    description: Credentials type for Nexus
    kind: cloud
    inputs: "{{ lookup('file', 'tower_credential_inputs_nexus.json') }}"
    injectors: {'extra_vars': {'nexus_credential': 'test' }}
    state: present
    validate_certs: false

- tower_credential_type:
    name: Nexus
    state: absent

Status

This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

Adrien Fleury (@fleu42)

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/modules/tower_credential_type_module.html