27장. Using Ansible to automate group membership in IdM

Procedure

1. Navigate to your ~/MyPlaybooks/ directory:

   $ cd ~/MyPlaybooks/

2. Copy the automember-group-present.yml Ansible playbook file located in the /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/freeipa/ansible_freeipa/playbooks/automember/ directory:

   $ cp /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/freeipa/ansible_freeipa/playbooks/automember/automember-group-present.yml automember-group-present-copy.yml

3. Open the automember-group-present-copy.yml file for editing.

4. Adapt the file by setting the following variables in the freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipaautomember task section:

   • Set the ipaadmin_password variable to the password of the IdM admin.
   • Set the name variable to testing_group.
   • Set the automember_type variable to group.
   • Ensure that the state variable is set to present.

   This is the modified Ansible playbook file for the current example:

   ---
   - name: Automember group present example
     hosts: ipaserver
     vars_files:
     - /home/user_name/MyPlaybooks/secret.yml
     tasks:
     - name: Ensure group automember rule admins is present
       freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipaautomember:
         ipaadmin_password: "{{ ipaadmin_password }}"
         name: testing_group
         automember_type: group
         state: present

5. Save the file.

6. Run the Ansible playbook. Specify the playbook file, the file storing the password protecting the secret.yml file, and the inventory file:

   $ ansible-playbook --vault-password-file=password_file -v -i inventory automember-group-present-copy.yml