awx.awx.tower_settings – Modify Ansible Tower settings.

Note

This plugin is part of the awx.awx collection (version 17.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install awx.awx.

To use it in a playbook, specify: awx.awx.tower_settings.

Synopsis

Requirements

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

  • pyyaml

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
name
string
Name of setting to modify
settings
dictionary
A data structure to be sent into the settings endpoint
tower_config_file
path
Path to the Tower or AWX config file.
If provided, the other locations for config files will not be considered.
tower_host
string
URL to your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_HOST and then config files
If value not specified by any means, the value of 127.0.0.1 will be used
tower_oauthtoken
raw
added in 3.7 of awx.awx
The Tower OAuth token to use.
This value can be in one of two formats.
A string which is the token itself. (i.e. bqV5txm97wqJqtkxlMkhQz0pKhRMMX)
A dictionary structure as returned by the tower_token module.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_OAUTH_TOKEN and then config files
tower_password
string
Password for your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_PASSWORD and then config files
tower_username
string
Username for your Tower or AWX instance.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_USERNAME and then config files
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Whether to allow insecure connections to Tower or AWX.
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.
If value not set, will try environment variable TOWER_VERIFY_SSL and then config files

aliases: tower_verify_ssl
value
string
Value to be modified for given setting.
If given a non-string type, will make best effort to cast it to type API expects.
For better control over types, use the settings param instead.

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

- name: Set the value of AWX_PROOT_BASE_PATH
  tower_settings:
    name: AWX_PROOT_BASE_PATH
    value: "/tmp"
  register: testing_settings

- name: Set the value of AWX_PROOT_SHOW_PATHS
  tower_settings:
    name: "AWX_PROOT_SHOW_PATHS"
    value: "'/var/lib/awx/projects/', '/tmp'"
  register: testing_settings

- name: Set the LDAP Auth Bind Password
  tower_settings:
    name: "AUTH_LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD"
    value: "Password"
  no_log: true

- name: Set all the LDAP Auth Bind Params
  tower_settings:
    settings:
      AUTH_LDAP_BIND_PASSWORD: "password"
      AUTH_LDAP_USER_ATTR_MAP:
        email: "mail"
        first_name: "givenName"
        last_name: "surname"

Authors

  • Nikhil Jain (@jainnikhil30)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/awx/awx/tower_settings_module.html