Role module

Description

The role module allows to ensure presence, absence of roles and members of roles.

The role module is as compatible as possible to the Ansible upstream ipa_role module, but additionally offers role member management.

Features

Role management

Supported FreeIPA Versions

FreeIPA versions 4.4.0 and up are supported by the iparole module.

Requirements

Controller * Ansible version: 2.8+

Node * Supported FreeIPA version (see above)

Usage

Example inventory file

[ipaserver]
ipaserver.test.local

Example playbook to make sure role is present with all members:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA role with members.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - iparole:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: somerole
      user:
      - pinky
      group:
      - group01
      host:
      - host01.example.com
      hostgroup:
      - hostgroup01
      privilege:
      - Group Administrators
      - User Administrators
      service:
      - service01

Example playbook to rename a role:

- iparole:
    ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
    name: somerole
    rename: anotherrole

Example playbook to make sure role is absent:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA role.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - iparole:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: somerole
      state: absent

Example playbook to ensure a user is a member of a role:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA role member.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - iparole:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: somerole
      user:
      - pinky
      action: member

Example playbook to ensure a group is a member of a role:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA role member.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - iparole:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: somerole
      host:
      - host01.example.com
      action: member

Example playbook to ensure a host is a member of a role:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA role member.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - iparole:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: somerole
      host:
      - host01.example.com
      action: member

Example playbook to ensure a hostgroup is a member of a role:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA role member.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - iparole:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: somerole
      hostgroup:
      - hostgroup01
      action: member

Example playbook to ensure a service is a member of a role:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA role member.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - iparole:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: somerole
      service:
      - service01
      action: member

Example playbook to ensure a privilege is a member of a role:

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA role member.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - iparole:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: somerole
      privilege:
      - Group Administrators
      - User Administrators
      action: member

Example playbook to ensure that different members are not associated with a role.

---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA role member.
  hosts: ipaserver
  become: yes
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:
  - iparole:
      ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
      name: somerole
      user:
      - pinky
      group:
      - group01
      host:
      - host01.example.com
      hostgroup:
      - hostgroup01
      privilege:
      - Group Administrators
      - User Administrators
      service:
      - service01
      action: member
      state: absent

Variables

iparole

Variable	Description	Required
`ipaadmin_principal`	The admin principal is a string and defaults to `admin`	no
`ipaadmin_password`	The admin password is a string and is required if there is no admin ticket available on the node	no
`name` \| `cn`	The list of role name strings.	yes
`description`	A description for the role.	no
`rename`	Rename the role object.	no
`privilege`	Privileges associated to this role.	no
`user`	List of users to be assigned or not assigned to the role.	no
`group`	List of groups to be assigned or not assigned to the role.	no
`host`	List of hosts to be assigned or not assigned to the role.	no
`hostgroup`	List of hostgroups to be assigned or not assigned to the role.	no
`service`	List of services to be assigned or not assigned to the role.	no
`action`	Work on role or member level. It can be on of `member` or `role` and defaults to `role`.	no
`state`	The state to ensure. It can be one of `present`, `absent`, default: `present`.	no

Authors

Rafael Jeffman

source-git / ansible-freeipa

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