theforeman.foreman.role module – Manage Roles

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 3.11.0).

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install theforeman.foreman. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

• Create, update, and delete Roles

Requirements

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

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	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	State of the entity Choices: "present" ← (default) "absent"
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	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. Choices: false true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute	Support	Description
check_mode	Support: full	Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying the entity
diff_mode	Support: full	Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode

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

Authors

• Christoffer Reijer (@ephracis) Basalt AB

Collection links

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