manage-credential-types

manage-credential-types

This role manages custom credential types for Ansible Tower, ensuring the credential type(s) provided in the Ansible inventory exists with the properties specified in the Inventory

Requirements

A running Ansible Tower with admin permission level access.

Role Variables

Check the top level README for additional/common variables.

The variables used to maintain the Credential Types must be defined in the Ansible Inventory using the ansible_tower.credential_types dictionary as explained below.

Note: Credential Types configuration will only happen if the ansible_tower.credential_types portion of the dictionary is defined. Likewise, the installation expects this section to be "complete" if specified as it otherwise may error out.

Variable	Description	Required	Defaults
ansible_tower.credential_types.name	Name to be used for the credential type	yes
ansible_tower.credential_types.description	Description for the credential type	no	nothing('')
ansible_tower.credential_types.fields.type	Credential Type to use ('machine', 'aws', etc)	yes
ansible_tower.credential_types.fields.id	Credential Type id	yes
ansible_tower.credential_types.fields.label	Credential Type Label	yes
ansible_tower.credential_types.fields.secret	Is this a secret - true/false	yes
ansible_tower.credential_types.required.id	List of fields that are required for this credential type	yes
ansible_tower.credential_types.injectors_extra_vars.name	Name of extra_vars that should be injected as part of this credential type	yes
ansible_tower.credential_types.injectors_extra_vars.id	idof extra_vars that should be injected as part of this credential type	yes

Example inventory

ansible_tower:
  credential_types:
  - name: "<REPLACE WITH CREDENTIAL TYPE NAME>"
    description: "<REPLACE WITH CREDENTIAL TYPE DESCRIPTION>"
    fields:
    - type: "<REPLACE WITH VALID CREDENTIAL TYPE>"
      id: "<REPLACE WITH CREDENTIAL TYPE ID>"
      label: "<REPLACE WITH CREDENTIAL TYPE LABEL>"
      secret: "<REPLACE WITH 'true' or 'false'>"
    required:
    - id: "<REPLACE WITH CREDENTIAL TYPE ID>"
    injectors_extra_vars:
    - name: "<REPLACE WITH EXTRA VAR NAME>"
      id: "<REPLACE WITH CORRESPONDING CREDENTIAL TYPE ID>"

Also check the README one level up for additional details of an example inventory.

Example Playbook

---

- hosts: tower
  roles:
  - role: manage-credential-types

License

Apache License 2.0

Author Information

Red Hat Community of Practice & staff of the Red Hat Open Innovation Labs.