theforeman.foreman.content_view_version module – Manage Content View Versions

Note

This module is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 5.7.0).

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.content_view_version.

New in theforeman.foreman 1.0.0

Synopsis

• Publish, Promote or Remove a Content View Version

Aliases: katello_content_view_version

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.
content_view string / required	Name of the content view
current_lifecycle_environment string	The lifecycle environment that is already associated with the content view version Helpful for promoting a content view version
description string	Description of the Content View Version
force_promote aliases: force boolean	Force content view promotion and bypass lifecycle environment restriction Choices: false ← (default) true
force_yum_metadata_regeneration boolean	Force metadata regeneration when performing Publish and Promote tasks Choices: false ← (default) true
lifecycle_environments list / elements=string	The lifecycle environments the Content View Version should be in.
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.
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"
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)
version string	The content view version number (i.e. 1.0)

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

Notes

Note

• You cannot use this to remove a Content View Version from a Lifecycle environment, you should promote another version first.

• For idempotency you must specify either version or current_lifecycle_environment.

Examples

- name: "Ensure content view version 2.0 is in Test & Pre Prod"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view_version:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    content_view: "CV 1"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    version: "2.0"
    lifecycle_environments:
      - Test
      - Pre Prod

- name: "Ensure content view version in Test is also in Pre Prod"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view_version:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    content_view: "CV 1"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    current_lifecycle_environment: Test
    lifecycle_environments:
      - Pre Prod

- name: "Publish a content view, not idempotent"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view_version:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    content_view: "CV 1"
    organization: "Default Organization"

- name: "Publish a content view and promote that version to Library & Dev, not idempotent"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view_version:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    content_view: "CV 1"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    lifecycle_environments:
      - Library
      - Dev

- name: "Ensure content view version 1.0 doesn't exist"
  theforeman.foreman.content_view_version:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    content_view: "Web Servers"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    version: "1.0"
    state: absent

# Obtain information about a Content View and its versions
- name: find all CVs
  theforeman.foreman.resource_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    resource: content_views
    search: 'name="Example Content"'
  register: example_content

# Obtain more details about all versions of a specific Content View
- name: "find content view versions of {{ cv_id }}"
  theforeman.foreman.resource_info:
    username: "admin"
    password: "changeme"
    server_url: "https://foreman.example.com"
    organization: "Default Organization"
    resource: content_view_versions
    params:
      content_view_id: "{{ example_content.resources[0].id }}"
  register: version_information

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
content_view_versions list / elements=dictionary	List of content view versions. Returned: success

Authors

• Sean O’Keeffe (@sean797)

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