redhat.satellite Release Notes 

Topics

This changelog describes changes after version 0.8.1.

v3.1.0 

Minor Changes 

Warn if the user tries to use a plain HTTP server URL and fail if the URL is neither HTTPS nor HTTP.
new compute_profiles role to manage compute profiles
new compute_resources role to manage compute resources
new content_view_publish role to publish a list of content views (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1209)
new domains role to manage domains
new operatingsystems role to manage operating systems
new provisioning_templates role to manage provisioning templates
new settings role to manage settings
new subnets role to manage subnets
repository - new download_concurrency parameter (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1273)

Bugfixes 

callback plugin - include timezone information in the callback reported data (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1171)
hostgroup, location - don’t fail when trying to delete a Hostgroup or Location where the parent is already absent
inventory plugin - fetch all facts, not only the first 250, when using the old Hosts API

v3.0.0 

Minor Changes 

Add a role convert2rhel to perform setup for converting systems to RHEL
inventory plugin - enable certificate validation by default
repository - add arch parameter to limit architectures of the repository (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1265)

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide 

Set use_reports_api default value to true for the inventory plugin
Support for Ansible 2.8 is removed

Bugfixes 

host, hostgroup - fix updating puppetclasses while also updating description (or other string-like attributes) (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1231)

v2.2.0 

Minor Changes 

repository - add support for filtering repositories by OS version based on API feature apidoc/v2/repositories/create.html

Bugfixes 

host, hostgroup - don’t accidentally duplicate kt_activation_keys param (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1268)

v2.1.2 

Bugfixes 

activation_key - submit organization_id when querying subs, required for Katello 4.1
content_view_version_cleanup - sort content view versions before deleting (https://github.com/RedHatSatellite/satellite-ansible-collection/issues/30, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1980274)
content_view_version_cleanup role - properly clean up when users set keep=0 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1974314)
host, compute_profile - when resolving cluster and other values in vm_attrs, compare them as strings (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1245)
subscription_info - mark organization parameter as required, to match Katello

v2.1.1 

Bugfixes 

external_usergroup - always lookup the ID of the usergroup, instead of passing the name to the API (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967649)
host, hostgroup - don’t override already set parameters when passing an activation key only (and vice versa) (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1967904)

v2.1.0 

Minor Changes 

Add a domain_info module
Add a hostgroups role (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1116)
Add a role content_rhel to perform basic setup for registering and syncing RHEL content hosts
Add content credentials role
callback plugin - collect facts during the run, merge them correctly and upload them once at the end
compute_resource - add cloud param for the AzureRm provider, to select which Azure cloud to use
compute_resource - add sub_id parameter for handling the Azure Subscription ID instead of the user parameter
host - Add Redfish to list of possible BMC providers of an interface
host, compute_profile - look up the correct id for storage pods and domains given as part of volumes_attributes (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1885234)
hostgroup - add a ansible_roles parameter (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1123)
new content_views role to manage content views (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1111)
new organizations role to manage organizations (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1109)
subnet - add bmc_proxy parameter to configure BMC proxies for subnets

Bugfixes 

host - pass the right image id to the compute resource when creating a host (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1160, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1911670)

New Modules 

redhat.satellite.content_view_info - Fetch information about Content Views
redhat.satellite.content_view_version_info - Fetch information about Content Views
redhat.satellite.domain_info - Fetch information about Domains
redhat.satellite.host_errata_info - Fetch information about Host Errata
redhat.satellite.repository_set_info - Fetch information about Red Hat Repositories
redhat.satellite.setting_info - Fetch information about Settings
redhat.satellite.subnet_info - Fetch information about Subnets
redhat.satellite.subscription_info - Fetch information about Subscriptions

v2.0.1 

Bugfixes 

host - don’t filter false values for interfaces_attributes (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1148)
host_info, repository_info - correctly fetch all entities when neither name nor search is set
host_info, repository_info - enforce mutual exclusivity of name and search

v2.0.0 

Minor Changes 

Add a role activation_keys to manage activation keys
Add a role lifecycle_environments to manage lifecycle environments
Add a role repositories to manage products, repositories, and repository_sets
Add a role sync_plans to manage sync plans
activation_key - add support for selecting subscriptions by upstream_pool_id
compute_resource - add set_console_password, keyboard_layout and public_key parameters (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1052)
host - clarify that owner refers to a users login, not their full name (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1045)
host - look up the correct network id for a network given as part of interfaces_attributes (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1104)
host, hostgroup - add activation_keys parameter to ease configuring activation keys for deploments

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide 

All role variables are now prefixed with foreman_ to avoid clashes with similarly named variables from roles outside this collection.

Bugfixes 

content_view_version - make the version parameter not fail when the version was entered without a minor part (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1087)
host - allow moving hosts between Organizations and Locations (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901716)
host - fix subnet/domain assignment when multiple interfaces are defined (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1095)
host, hostgroup - select kickstart_repository based on lifecycle_environment and content_view if those are set (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1090, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1915872)
resource_info - correctly show the exact resource when passing id in params

New Modules 

redhat.satellite.host_info - Fetch information about Hosts
redhat.satellite.puppetclasses_import - Import Puppet Classes from a Proxy
redhat.satellite.repository_info - Fetch information about Repositories

v1.5.0 

Minor Changes 

content_upload - use to_native to decode RPM headers if needed (RPM 4.15+ returns strings)
content_view_version - provide examples how to obtain detailed information about content view versions (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868145)
content_view_version_cleanup - new role for cleaning up unused content view versions (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/497)
host - allow management of interfaces (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/757)
inventory plugin - add support for the Report API present in Foreman 1.24 and later
inventory plugin - allow to compose the inventory_hostname (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1070)
manifest - new role for easier handling of subscription manifest workflows
subnet - add new externalipam_group parameter
update vendored apypie to 0.3.2

Bugfixes 

content_upload - Fix upload of files bigger than 2MB in Pulp3-based setups (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1043)
job_invocation - properly submit ssh, recurrence, scheduling and concurrency_control to the server
repository - don’t emit a false warning about organization_id not being supported by the server (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1055)
repository_set, repository - clarify documentation which module should be used for Red Hat Repositories (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1059)

v1.4.0 

Minor Changes 

global_parameter - allow to set hidden flag (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/1024)
job_template - stricter validation of template_inputs sub-options
redhat_manifest - allow configuring content access mode (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/820)
subnet - verify the server has the remote_execution plugin when specifying remote_execution_proxies
the apypie library is vendored inside the collection, so users only have to install requests manually now.

Bugfixes 

Don’t try to update an entity, if only parameters that aren’t supported by the server are detected as changed. (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/975)
allow to pass an empty string when refering to entities, thus unsetting the value (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/969)
compute_profile - don’t fail when trying to update compute attributes of a profile (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/997)
host, hostgroup - support None as the pxe_loader (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/971)
job_template - don’t fail when trying to update template_inputs
os_default_template - document possible template kind choices (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1889952)
smart_class_parameters - don’t fail when trying to update override_values

New Modules 

redhat.satellite.job_invocation - Invoke Remote Execution Jobs
redhat.satellite.smart_proxy - Manage Smart Proxies

v1.3.0 

Minor Changes 

external_usergroup - rename the auth_source_ldap parameter to auth_source (auth_source_ldap is still supported via an alias)
server URL and credentials can now also be specified using environment variables (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/837)
subnet - add support for external IPAM (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/966)

Bugfixes 

content_view - remove CVs from lifecycle environments before deleting them (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1875314)
external_usergroup - support non-LDAP external groups (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/956)
host - properly scope image lookups by the compute resource (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1878693)
inventory plugin - include empty parent groups in the inventory (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/919)

New Modules 

redhat.satellite.status_info - Get status info

v1.2.0 

Minor Changes 

compute_resource - added caching_enabled option for VMware compute resources
domain, host, hostgroup, operatingsystem, subnet - manage parameters in a single API call (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1855008)
host - add compute_attributes parameter to module (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1871815)
provisioning_template - update list of possible template kinds (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1871978)
repository - update supported parameters (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/935)

Bugfixes 

image - fix quoting of search values (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/927)

v1.1.0 

Minor Changes 

activation_key - add description parameter (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/915)
callback plugin - add reporter to report logs sent to Foreman (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/836)
document return values of modules (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/pull/901)
inventory plugin - allow to control batch size when pulling hosts from Foreman (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/pull/865)
subnet - Require mask/cidr only on ipv4 (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/878)

Bugfixes 

inventory plugin - fix want_params handling (https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/847)

New Modules 

redhat.satellite.http_proxy - Manage HTTP Proxies

v1.0.1 

Release Summary 

Documentation fixes to reflect the correct module names.

v1.0.0 

Release Summary 

This is the first stable release of the redhat.satellite collection.

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide 

All modules were renamed to drop the foreman_ and katello_ prefixes. Additionally to the prefix removal, the following modules were further ranamed:
- katello_upload to content_upload
- katello_sync to repository_sync
- katello_manifest to subscription_manifest
- foreman_search_facts to resource_info
- foreman_ptable to partition_table
- foreman_model to hardware_model
- foreman_environment to puppet_environment

New Modules 

redhat.satellite.activation_key - Manage Activation Keys
redhat.satellite.architecture - Manage Architectures
redhat.satellite.auth_source_ldap - Manage LDAP Authentication Sources
redhat.satellite.bookmark - Manage Bookmarks
redhat.satellite.compute_attribute - Manage Compute Attributes
redhat.satellite.compute_profile - Manage Compute Profiles
redhat.satellite.compute_resource - Manage Compute Resources
redhat.satellite.config_group - Manage (Puppet) Config Groups
redhat.satellite.content_credential - Manage Content Credentials
redhat.satellite.content_upload - Upload content to a repository
redhat.satellite.content_view - Manage Content Views
redhat.satellite.content_view_filter - Manage Content View Filters
redhat.satellite.content_view_version - Manage Content View Versions
redhat.satellite.domain - Manage Domains
redhat.satellite.external_usergroup - Manage External User Groups
redhat.satellite.global_parameter - Manage Global Parameters
redhat.satellite.hardware_model - Manage Hardware Models
redhat.satellite.host - Manage Hosts
redhat.satellite.host_collection - Manage Host Collections
redhat.satellite.host_power - Manage Power State of Hosts
redhat.satellite.hostgroup - Manage Hostgroups
redhat.satellite.image - Manage Images
redhat.satellite.installation_medium - Manage Installation Media
redhat.satellite.job_template - Manage Job Templates
redhat.satellite.lifecycle_environment - Manage Lifecycle Environments
redhat.satellite.location - Manage Locations
redhat.satellite.operatingsystem - Manage Operating Systems
redhat.satellite.organization - Manage Organizations
redhat.satellite.os_default_template - Manage Default Template Associations To Operating Systems
redhat.satellite.partition_table - Manage Partition Table Templates
redhat.satellite.product - Manage Products
redhat.satellite.provisioning_template - Manage Provisioning Templates
redhat.satellite.puppet_environment - Manage Puppet Environments
redhat.satellite.realm - Manage Realms
redhat.satellite.redhat_manifest - Interact with a Red Hat Satellite Subscription Manifest
redhat.satellite.repository - Manage Repositories
redhat.satellite.repository_set - Enable/disable Repositories in Repository Sets
redhat.satellite.repository_sync - Sync a Repository or Product
redhat.satellite.resource_info - Gather information about resources
redhat.satellite.role - Manage Roles
redhat.satellite.scap_content - Manage SCAP content
redhat.satellite.scap_tailoring_file - Manage SCAP Tailoring Files
redhat.satellite.scc_account - Manage SUSE Customer Center Accounts
redhat.satellite.scc_product - Subscribe SUSE Customer Center Account Products
redhat.satellite.setting - Manage Settings
redhat.satellite.smart_class_parameter - Manage Smart Class Parameters
redhat.satellite.snapshot - Manage Snapshots
redhat.satellite.subnet - Manage Subnets
redhat.satellite.subscription_manifest - Manage Subscription Manifests
redhat.satellite.sync_plan - Manage Sync Plans
redhat.satellite.templates_import - Sync Templates from a repository
redhat.satellite.user - Manage Users
redhat.satellite.usergroup - Manage User Groups