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theforeman.foreman.image – Manage Images
Note
This plugin is part of the theforeman.foreman collection (version 2.2.0).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. 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.
To use it in a playbook, specify: theforeman.foreman.image.
New in version 1.0.0: of theforeman.foreman
Synopsis
- Create, update, and delete Images
 
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- requests
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| architecture
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        architecture of the image
         | 
     |
| compute_resource
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        Compute resource the image is assigned to
         | 
     |
| image_password
        
        string
         | 
      
        
        Password that is used to login into the operating system
         | 
     |
| image_username
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        Username that is used to login into the operating system
         | 
     |
| name
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        Image name
         | 
     |
| operatingsystem
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        Operating systems are looked up by their title which is composed as "<name> <major>.<minor>".
        
       
        You can omit the version part as long as you only have one operating system by that name.
         | 
     |
| 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
         | 
     
| user_data
        
        boolean
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Image supports user_data
         | 
     
| 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.
        | 
     |
| uuid
        
        string / required
         | 
      
        
        UUID or Marketplace URN of the operatingsystem image
        
       aliases: image_uuid  | 
     |
| 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.
        | 
     
Examples
- name: create Image for EC2
  image:
     name: CentOS
     image_uuid: "ami-0ff760d16d9497662"
     image_username: "centos"
     operatingsystem: "CentOS 7"
     compute_resource: "AWS"
     architecture: "x86_64"
  Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
| Key | Returned | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| entity
        
        dictionary
         | 
      success | 
        
        Final state of the affected entities grouped by their type.
          | 
     |
| images
        
        list / elements=dictionary
         | 
      success | 
        
        List of images.
          | 
     |
Authors
- Mark Hlawatschek (@hlawatschek) ATIX AG
 
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
 https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/theforeman/foreman/image_module.html