theforeman.foreman.role – Manage Roles

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.2.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. 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 theforeman.foreman.

To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.role.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis

Create, update, and delete Roles

Requirements

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

requests

Parameters

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	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
	search 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 `FOREMAN_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 `FOREMAN_SERVER_URL` will be used instead.
state string		Choices: present ← absent	State of the entity
username string / required			Username accessing the Foreman server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable `FOREMAN_USERNAME` will be used instead.
validate_certs boolean		Choices: no yes ←	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 `FOREMAN_VALIDATE_CERTS` will be used instead.

Examples

- name: role
  theforeman.foreman.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://foreman.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		Returned	Description
entity dictionary		success	Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.
	roles list / elements=dictionary	success	List of roles.

Authors

Christoffer Reijer (@ephracis) Basalt AB

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/theforeman/foreman/role_module.html