redhat.satellite.role module – Manage Roles

Note

This module is part of the redhat.satellite collection (version 4.2.0).

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.role.

New in redhat.satellite 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Create, update, and delete Roles

Aliases: foreman_role

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

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

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 SATELLITE_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 SATELLITE_SERVER_URL will be used instead.

state

string

State of the entity

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

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: role
  redhat.satellite.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://satellite.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

Description

entity

dictionary

Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.

Returned: success

roles

list / elements=dictionary

List of roles.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Christoffer Reijer (@ephracis) Basalt AB