theforeman.foreman.sync_plans
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This role defines Sync Plans.

Role Variables
--------------

This role supports the [Common Role Variables](https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/blob/develop/README.md#common-role-variables).

- `foreman_sync_plans`: List of sync plans to create. Each sync plan is represented as a dictionary which specifies the `name` of the sync plan and the `products` assigned to the sync plan. It also specifies the `interval` which can be 'hourly', 'daily', 'weekly', or 'custom cron'. In case the 'custom cron' `interval` is used, it should also specify the `cron_expression`. Finally the sync plan should have a `sync_date` which specifies the first time that the sync plan will run.

```yaml
foreman_sync_plans:
  - name: Weekly Sync
    interval: weekly
    sync_date: 2020-11-07 00:00:00 UTC
    products:
      - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
      - Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)
      - Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
      - CentOS 8
      - Debian 10
  - name: Monthly Foreman Client Sync
    interval: custom cron
    cron_expression: 0 6 8 * *
    sync_date: 2020-11-08 00:06:00 UTC
    products:
      - Foreman Client
```

Example Playbooks
-----------------

Create two sync plans:

```yaml
- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: theforeman.foreman.sync_plans
      vars:
        foreman_server_url: https://foreman.example.com
        foreman_username: "admin"
        foreman_password: "changeme"
        foreman_organization: "Default Organization"
        foreman_sync_plans:
          - name: Weekly Sync
            interval: weekly
            sync_date: 2020-11-07 00:00:00 UTC
            products:
              - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
              - Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
          - name: Daily Sync
            interval: daily
            sync_date: 2020-11-08 00:00:00 UTC
            products:
              - Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server)
```
 
Create a single sync plan which has all defined products (those defined in the `foreman_products` dictionary in ansible vars, for example as defined in the role documentation for [theforeman.foreman.repositories](https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/tree/develop/roles/repositories#role-variables)) assigned to it:

```yaml
- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: theforeman.foreman.sync_plans
      vars:
        foreman_server_url: https://foreman.example.com
        foreman_username: "admin"
        foreman_password: "changeme"
        foreman_organization: "Default Organization"
        foreman_sync_plans:
          - name: Weekly Sync
            interval: weekly
            sync_date: 2020-11-07 00:00:00 UTC
            products: "{{ foreman_products | map(attribute='name') | list }}"
```

The above example assumes that a yaml dictionary `foreman_products` is already defined in Ansible variables. It uses yaml methods to select the name of each product from that dictionary, convert them all to a list, and pass that list to the definition of the sync plan.