redhat.satellite.os_default_template module – Manage Default Template Associations To Operating Systems

Note

This module is part of the redhat.satellite collection (version 4.0.0).

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 redhat.satellite. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: redhat.satellite.os_default_template.

New in redhat.satellite 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Manage OSDefaultTemplate Entities

Aliases: foreman_os_default_template

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

operatingsystem

string / required

Operating systems are looked up by their title which is composed as “<name> <major>.<minor>”.

You can omit the version part as long as you only have one operating system by that name.

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 SATELLITE_PASSWORD will be used instead.

provisioning_template

string

name of provisioning template

server_url

string / required

URL of the Foreman server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable SATELLITE_SERVER_URL will be used instead.

state

string

State of the entity

present_with_defaults will ensure the entity exists, but won’t update existing ones

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "present_with_defaults"

  • "absent"

template_kind

string / required

name of the template kind

Choices:

  • "Bootdisk"

  • "cloud-init"

  • "finish"

  • "host_init_config"

  • "iPXE"

  • "job_template"

  • "kexec"

  • "POAP"

  • "provision"

  • "PXEGrub"

  • "PXEGrub2"

  • "PXELinux"

  • "registration"

  • "script"

  • "user_data"

  • "ZTP"

username

string / required

Username accessing the Foreman server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable SATELLITE_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 SATELLITE_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

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

Examples

- name: "Create an Association"
  redhat.satellite.os_default_template:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://satellite.example.com"
    operatingsystem: "CoolOS"
    template_kind: "finish"
    provisioning_template: "CoolOS finish"
    state: present

- name: "Delete an Association"
  redhat.satellite.os_default_template:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://satellite.example.com"
    operatingsystem: "CoolOS"
    template_kind: "finish"
    state: absent

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

os_default_templates

list / elements=dictionary

List of operatingsystem default templates.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Matthias M Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX AG