theforeman.foreman.repository_sync module – Sync a Repository or Product

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 5.3.0).

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.repository_sync.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Sync a repository or product

Aliases: katello_sync

Requirements

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

  • requests

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

ca_path

path

PEM formatted file that contains a CA certificate to be used for validation.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_CA_PATH will be used instead.

organization

string / required

Organization that the entity is in

password

string

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.

product

string / required

Product to which the repository lives in

repository

string

Name of the repository to sync If omitted, all repositories in product are synched.

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.

use_gssapi

boolean

Use GSSAPI to perform the authentication, typically this is for Kerberos or Kerberos through Negotiate authentication.

Requires the Python library requests-gssapi to be installed.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable FOREMAN_USE_GSSAPI will be used instead.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

username

string

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: "Sync repository"
  theforeman.foreman.repository_sync:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    repository: "My repository"
    product: "My Product"
    organization: "Default Organization"

Authors

  • Eric D Helms (@ehelms)

  • Matthias M Dellweg (@mdellweg) ATIX AG