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tower_credential_type - Create, update, or destroy custom Ansible Tower credential type.

New in version 2.7.

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • ansible-tower-cli >= 3.0.2

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
description
The description of the credential type to give more detail about it.
injectors
Enter injectors using either JSON or YAML syntax. Refer to the Ansible Tower documentation for example syntax.
inputs
Enter inputs using either JSON or YAML syntax. Refer to the Ansible Tower documentation for example syntax.
kind
    Choices:
  • ssh
  • vault
  • net
  • scm
  • cloud
  • insights
The type of credential type being added. Note that only cloud and net can be used for creating credential types. Refer to the Ansible for more information.
name
required
The name of the credential type.
state
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Desired state of the resource.
tower_config_file
Path to the Tower config file. See notes.
tower_host
URL to your Tower instance.
tower_password
Password for your Tower instance.
tower_username
Username for your Tower instance.
tower_verify_ssl
bool
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Tower option to avoid certificates check.

Notes

Note

  • If no config_file is provided we will attempt to use the tower-cli library defaults to find your Tower host information.
  • config_file should contain Tower configuration in the following format host=hostname username=username password=password

Examples

- tower_credential_type:
    name: Nexus
    description: Credentials type for Nexus
    kind: cloud
    inputs: "{{ lookup('file', 'tower_credential_inputs_nexus.json') }}"
    injectors: {'extra_vars': {'nexus_credential': 'test' }}
    state: present
    tower_verify_ssl: false

- tower_credential_type:
    name: Nexus
    state: absent

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

  • Adrien Fleury (@fleu42)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.7/modules/tower_credential_type_module.html