theforeman.foreman.templates_import module – Sync Templates from a repository

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.templates_import.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

• Sync provisioning templates, report_templates, partition tables and job templates from external git repository or file system.

• Based on foreman_templates plugin https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_templates.

Requirements

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

• requests

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
associate string	Associate to Operatingsystems, Locations and Organizations based on metadata. Choices: "always" "new" "never"
branch string	Branch of the repo. Only for git-based repositories.
dirname string	The directory within Git repo containing the templates.
filter string	Sync only templates with name matching this regular expression, after prefix was applied. Case-insensitive, snippets are not filtered.
force boolean	Update templates that are locked. Choices: false true
locations list / elements=string	List of locations the entity should be assigned to
lock boolean	Lock imported templates. Choices: false true
negate boolean	Negate the filter condition. Choices: false true
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.
prefix string	Adds specified string to beginning of all imported templates that do not yet have that prefix.
repo string	Filesystem path or repo (with protocol), for example /tmp/dir or git://example.com/repo.git or https://example.com/repo.git.
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.
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)
verbose boolean	Add template reports to the output. Choices: false true

Attributes

Attribute	Support	Description
check_mode	Support: none	Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying the entity
diff_mode	Support: none	Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode

Notes

Note

• Due to a bug in the foreman_templates plugin, this module won’t report changed=true when the only change is the Organization/Location association of the imported templates. Please see https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/29534 for details.

• Default values for all module options can be set using theforeman.foreman.setting for TemplateSync category or on the settings page in WebUI.

Examples

- name: Sync templates from git repo
  theforeman.foreman.templates_import:
    repo: https://github.com/theforeman/community-templates.git
    branch: 1.24-stable
    associate: new
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
message dictionary	Information about the import. Returned: success
branch string	Branch used in the repository. Returned: success
repo string	Repository, the templates were imported from. Returned: success
report dictionary	Report of the import. Returned: success
changed list / elements=string	List of templates that have been updated. Returned: success
new list / elements=string	List of templates that have been created. Returned: success
templates dictionary	Final state of the templates. Returned: success

Authors

• Anton Nesterov (@nesanton)

Collection links

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