theforeman.foreman.os_default_template module – Manage Default Template Associations To Operating Systems

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 3.5.0).

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.os_default_template.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Manage OSDefaultTemplate Entities

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

operatingsystem

string / required

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.

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.

provisioning_template

string

name of provisioning template

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

present_with_defaults will ensure the entity exists, but won’t update existing ones

Choices:

  • present ← (default)

  • present_with_defaults

  • absent

template_kind

string / required

name of the template kind

Choices:

  • Bootdisk

  • cloud-init

  • finish

  • host_init_config

  • iPXE

  • job_template

  • kexec

  • POAP

  • provision

  • PXEGrub

  • PXEGrub2

  • PXELinux

  • registration

  • script

  • user_data

  • ZTP

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)

Examples

- name: "Create an Association"
  theforeman.foreman.os_default_template:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    operatingsystem: "CoolOS"
    template_kind: "finish"
    provisioning_template: "CoolOS finish"
    state: present

- name: "Delete an Association"
  theforeman.foreman.os_default_template:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    operatingsystem: "CoolOS"
    template_kind: "finish"
    state: absent

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

os_default_templates

list / elements=dictionary

List of operatingsystem default templates.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Matthias M Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX AG