theforeman.foreman.hostgroup – Manage Hostgroups

Note

This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.1.2).

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.
ansible_roles list / elements=string added in 2.1.0 of theforeman.foreman			A list of ansible roles to associate with the hostgroup. The foreman-ansible plugin must be installed to use this parameter.
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)