theforeman.foreman.hostgroup – Manage Hostgroups

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.0.0).

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

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

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Create, update, and delete Hostgroups

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
activation_keys
string
Activation Keys used for deployment.
Comma separated list.
Only available for Katello installations.
architecture
string
Architecture name
compute_profile
string
Compute profile name
compute_resource
string
Compute resource name
config_groups
list / elements=string
Config groups list
content_source
string
Content source.
Only available for Katello installations.
content_view
string
Content view.
Only available for Katello installations.
description
string
Description of hostgroup
domain
string
Domain name
environment
string
Puppet environment name
kickstart_repository
string
Kickstart repository name.
You need to provide this to use the "Synced Content" feature.
Mutually exclusive with medium.
Only available for Katello installations.
lifecycle_environment
string
Lifecycle environment.
Only available for Katello installations.
locations
list / elements=string
List of locations the entity should be assigned to
medium
string
Medium name
Mutually exclusive with kickstart_repository.

aliases: media
name
string / required
Name of hostgroup
openscap_proxy
string
OpenSCAP proxy name.
Only available when the OpenSCAP plugin is installed.
operatingsystem
string
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.
organization
string
Organization for scoped resources attached to the hostgroup.
Only used for Katello installations.
This organization will implicitly be added to the organizations parameter if needed.
organizations
list / elements=string
List of organizations the entity should be assigned to
parameters
list / elements=dictionary
Hostgroup specific host parameters
name
string / required
Name of the parameter
parameter_type
string
    Choices:
  • string ←
  • boolean
  • integer
  • real
  • array
  • hash
  • yaml
  • json
Type of the parameter
value
raw / required
Value of the parameter
parent
string
Hostgroup parent 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 FOREMAN_PASSWORD will be used instead.
ptable
string
Partition table name
puppet_ca_proxy
string
Puppet CA proxy name
puppet_proxy
string
Puppet server proxy name
puppetclasses
list / elements=string
List of puppet classes to include in this host group. Must exist for hostgroup's puppet environment.
pxe_loader
string
    Choices:
  • PXELinux BIOS
  • PXELinux UEFI
  • Grub UEFI
  • Grub2 BIOS
  • Grub2 ELF
  • Grub2 UEFI
  • Grub2 UEFI SecureBoot
  • Grub2 UEFI HTTP
  • Grub2 UEFI HTTPS
  • Grub2 UEFI HTTPS SecureBoot
  • iPXE Embedded
  • iPXE UEFI HTTP
  • iPXE Chain BIOS
  • iPXE Chain UEFI
  • None
PXE Bootloader
realm
string
Realm name
root_pass
string
Root password.
Will result in the entity always being updated, as the current password cannot be retrieved.
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
subnet
string
IPv4 Subnet name
subnet6
string
IPv6 Subnet name
updated_name
string
New name of hostgroup. 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 a Hostgroup"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    name: "new_hostgroup"
    architecture: "architecture_name"
    operatingsystem: "operatingsystem_name"
    medium: "media_name"
    ptable: "Partition_table_name"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    state: present

- name: "Update a Hostgroup"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    name: "new_hostgroup"
    architecture: "updated_architecture_name"
    operatingsystem: "updated_operatingsystem_name"
    organizations:
      - Org One
      - Org Two
    locations:
      - Loc One
      - Loc Two
      - Loc One/Nested loc
    medium: "updated_media_name"
    ptable: "updated_Partition_table_name"
    root_pass: "password"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    state: present

- name: "My nested hostgroup"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    parent: "new_hostgroup"
    name: "my nested hostgroup"

- name: "My hostgroup with some proxies"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    name: "my hostgroup"
    environment: production
    puppet_proxy: puppet-proxy.example.com
    puppet_ca_proxy: puppet-proxy.example.com
    openscap_proxy: openscap-proxy.example.com

- name: "My katello related hostgroup"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    organization: "My Org"
    name: "kt hostgroup"
    content_source: capsule.example.com
    lifecycle_environment: "Production"
    content_view: "My content view"
    parameters:
      - name: "kt_activation_keys"
        value: "my_prod_ak"

- name: "Delete a Hostgroup"
  theforeman.foreman.hostgroup:
    name: "new_hostgroup"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    state: absent

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.

 
hostgroups
list / elements=dictionary
success
List of hostgroups.



Authors

  • Manisha Singhal (@Manisha15) ATIX AG

  • Baptiste Agasse (@bagasse)