win_domain_membership - Manage domain/workgroup membership for a Windows host

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status
• Maintenance
  • Support
  • Author

Synopsis

• Manages domain membership or workgroup membership for a Windows host. Also supports hostname changes.
• This module may require subsequent use of the win_reboot action if changes are made.

Parameters

Examples

# host should be a member of domain ansible.vagrant; module will ensure the hostname is mydomainclient
# and will use the passed credentials to join domain if necessary.
# Ansible connection should use local credentials if possible.
# If a reboot is required, the second task will trigger one and wait until the host is available.
- hosts: winclient
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - win_domain_membership:
      dns_domain_name: ansible.vagrant
      hostname: mydomainclient
      domain_admin_user: [email protected]
      domain_admin_password: password123!
      domain_ou_path: "OU=Windows,OU=Servers,DC=ansible,DC=vagrant"
      state: domain
    register: domain_state

  - win_reboot:
    when: domain_state.reboot_required



# Host should be in workgroup mywg- module will use the passed credentials to clean-unjoin domain if possible.
# Ansible connection should use local credentials if possible.
# The domain admin credentials can be sourced from a vault-encrypted variable
- hosts: winclient
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - win_domain_membership:
      workgroup_name: mywg
      domain_admin_user: '{{ win_domain_admin_user }}'
      domain_admin_password: '{{ win_domain_admin_password }}'
      state: workgroup

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

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 core which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

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

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

• Matt Davis (@nitzmahone)