theforeman.foreman.host_collection – Manage Host Collections

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection.

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install theforeman.foreman.

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

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Create and Manage host collections

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
description
string
Description of the host collection
name
string / required
Name of the host collection
organization
string / required
Organization that the entity is in
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
updated_name
string
New name of the host collection. When this parameter is set, the module will not be idempotent.
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: "Create Foo host collection"
  theforeman.foreman.host_collection:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "Foo"
    description: "Foo host collection for Foo servers"
    organization: "My Cool new Organization"
    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.
 
host_collections
list / elements=dictionary
success
List of host collections.


Authors

  • Maxim Burgerhout (@wzzrd)

  • Christoffer Reijer (@ephracis)