theforeman.foreman.snapshot module – Manage Snapshots

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 4.2.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

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.snapshot.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

Aliases: foreman_snapshot

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

description

string

Description of Snapshot

host

string / required

Name of related Host

id

string

Id of Snapshot

include_ram

boolean

Option to add RAM (only available for VMWare compute-resource)

Choices:

  • false

  • true

name

string / required

Name of Snapshot

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 Snapshot

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "reverted"

  • "absent"

  • "new_snapshot"

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: "Create a Snapshot"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    state: present

- name: "Create Snapshots with same name"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    state: new_snapshot

- name: "Update a Snapshot"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    description: "description of snapshot"
    state: present

- name: "Update a Snapshot with same name"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    description: "description of snapshot"
    state: present
    id: "snapshot-id"

- name: "Revert a Snapshot"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    state: reverted

- name: "Delete a Snapshot"
  theforeman.foreman.snapshot:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    name: "snapshot_before_software_upgrade"
    host: "server.example.com"
    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

snapshots

list / elements=dictionary

List of snapshots.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Manisha Singhal (@Manisha15) ATIX AG