theforeman.foreman.location module – Manage Locations

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 3.6.0).

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.location.

New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman

Synopsis

  • Manage Locations

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

name

string / required

Name of the Location

organizations

list / elements=string

List of organizations the location should be assigned to

parameters

list / elements=dictionary

Entity domain specific host parameters

name

string / required

Name of the parameter

parameter_type

string

Type of the parameter

Choices:

  • string ← (default)

  • boolean

  • integer

  • real

  • array

  • hash

  • yaml

  • json

value

any / required

Value of the parameter

parent

string

Title of a parent Location for nesting

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)

Examples

# Create a simple location
- name: "Create CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location"
    organizations:
      - "Default Organization"
    state: present

# Create a nested location
- name: "Create Nested CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Nested location"
    parent: "My Cool New Location"
    state: present

# Create a new nested location with parent included in name
- name: "Create New Nested Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location/New nested location"
    state: present

# Move a nested location to another parent
- name: "Create Nested CI Location"
  theforeman.foreman.location:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "My Cool New Location/New nested location"
    parent: "My Cool New Location/My Nested location"
    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

locations

list / elements=dictionary

List of locations.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Matthias M Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX AG