24장. Managing user groups using Ansible playbooks

Procedure

1. Create an Ansible playbook file with the necessary user and group information:

   ---
   - name: Playbook to handle groups
     hosts: ipaserver
   
     vars_files:
     - /home/user_name/MyPlaybooks/secret.yml
     tasks:
     - name: Create group ops with gid 1234
       freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipagroup:
         ipaadmin_password: "{{ ipaadmin_password }}"
         name: ops
         gidnumber: 1234
   
     - name: Create group sysops
       freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipagroup:
         ipaadmin_password: "{{ ipaadmin_password }}"
         name: sysops
         user:
         - idm_user
   
     - name: Create group appops
       freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipagroup:
         ipaadmin_password: "{{ ipaadmin_password }}"
         name: appops
   
     - name: Add group members sysops and appops to group ops
       freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipagroup:
         ipaadmin_password: "{{ ipaadmin_password }}"
         name: ops
         group:
         - sysops
         - appops

   For details about all variables used in the playbook, see the /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/freeipa/ansible_freeipa/README-group.md file on the control node.

2. Run the playbook:

   $ ansible-playbook --vault-password-file=password_file -v -i path_to_inventory_directory/inventory.file path_to_playbooks_directory/add-group-members.yml

1. Log into ipaserver as administrator:

   $ ssh admin@server.idm.example.com
   Password:
   [admin@server /]$

2. Display information about ops:

   ipaserver]$ ipa group-show ops
     Group name: ops
     GID: 1234
     Member groups: sysops, appops
     Indirect Member users: idm_user

   The appops and sysops groups - the latter including the idm_user user - exist in IdM.