module doc updates for 0.6 (release pending soon)

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Michael DeHaan 12 years ago
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#facter">facter</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#fetch">fetch</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#file">file</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#get-url">get_url</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#git">git</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#group">group</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#mount">mount</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#mysql-db">mysql_db</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#mysql-user">mysql_user</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#ohai">ohai</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#ping">ping</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#postgresql-db">postgresql_db</a></li>
@ -278,6 +282,11 @@ Can be run as part of the package installation or a seperate step</td>
behavior works as apt&#8217;s default behavior, &#8216;no&#8217; does not install
recommended packages. Suggested packages are never installed.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>force</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>If &#8216;yes&#8217;, force installs/removes.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Example action from Ansible <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>:</p>
@ -583,8 +592,54 @@ file path=/some/path state=directory setype=httpd_sys_content_t
file path=/some/path state=directory context=default</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="get-url">
<span id="id9"></span><h2>get_url<a class="headerlink" href="#get-url" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Downloads files from http, https, or ftp to the remote server. The remote server must have direct
access to the remote resource.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="17%" />
<col width="9%" />
<col width="8%" />
<col width="66%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">parameter</th>
<th class="head">required</th>
<th class="head">default</th>
<th class="head">comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>url</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>http, https, or ftp URL</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>dest</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>absolute path of where to download the file to. If dest is a directory,
the basename of the file on the remote server will be used.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>OTHERS</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>all arguments accepted by the file module also work here</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Example action from Ansible <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: Grab a bunch of jQuery stuff
action: get_url url=http://code.jquery.com/$item dest=${jquery_directory} mode=0444
with_items:
- jquery.min.js
- mobile/latest/jquery.mobile.min.js
- ui/jquery-ui-git.css</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="git">
<span id="id9"></span><h2>git<a class="headerlink" href="#git" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id10"></span><h2>git<a class="headerlink" href="#git" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Deploys software (or files) from git checkouts.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
@ -612,13 +667,13 @@ file path=/some/path state=directory context=default</pre>
<td>absolute path of where the repo should be checked out to</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>version</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>HEAD</td>
<td>what version to check out &#8211; either the git SHA, the literal string
&#8216;HEAD&#8217;, branch name, or a tag name.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>remote</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>origin</td>
<td>name of the remote branch</td>
</tr>
@ -629,7 +684,7 @@ file path=/some/path state=directory context=default</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="group">
<span id="id10"></span><h2>group<a class="headerlink" href="#group" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id11"></span><h2>group<a class="headerlink" href="#group" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Adds or removes groups.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
@ -673,8 +728,197 @@ file path=/some/path state=directory context=default</pre>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>group name=somegroup state=present</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="mount">
<span id="id12"></span><h2>mount<a class="headerlink" href="#mount" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The mount module controls active and configured mount points (fstab).</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="17%" />
<col width="9%" />
<col width="8%" />
<col width="66%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">parameter</th>
<th class="head">required</th>
<th class="head">default</th>
<th class="head">comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>name</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>path to the mountpoint, ex: /mnt/foo</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>src</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>device to be mounted</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>fstype</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>fstype</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>opts</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>mount options (see fstab docs)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>dump</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>dump (see fstab docs)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>passno</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>passno (see fstab docs)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>state</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&#8216;present&#8217;, &#8216;absent&#8217;, &#8216;mounted&#8217;, or &#8216;unmounted&#8217;. If mounted/unmounted,
the device will be actively mounted or unmounted as well as just
configured in fstab. &#8216;absent&#8217;, and &#8216;present&#8217; only deal with fstab.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="mysql-db">
<span id="id13"></span><h2>mysql_db<a class="headerlink" href="#mysql-db" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Add or remove MySQL databases from a remote host.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="17%" />
<col width="9%" />
<col width="9%" />
<col width="0%" />
<col width="66%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">parameter</th>
<th class="head">required</th>
<th class="head">default</th>
<th class="head" colspan="2">comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>name</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td colspan="3"><div class="first last line-block">
<div class="line">name of the database to add or remove</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>login_user</td>
<td>no</td>
<td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
<td>user used to authenticate with</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>login_password</td>
<td>no</td>
<td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
<td>password used to authenticate with</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>login_host</td>
<td>no</td>
<td colspan="2">localhost</td>
<td>host running the database</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>state</td>
<td>no</td>
<td colspan="2">present</td>
<td>&#8216;absent&#8217; or &#8216;present&#8217;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>collation</td>
<td>no</td>
<td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
<td>collation mode</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>encoding</td>
<td>no</td>
<td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
<td>encoding mode</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Example action from Ansible <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: Create database
action: mysql_db loginpass=$mysql_root_password db=bobdata state=present</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="mysql-user">
<h2>mysql_user<a class="headerlink" href="#mysql-user" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Adds or removes a user from a MySQL database.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="17%" />
<col width="8%" />
<col width="10%" />
<col width="64%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">parameter</th>
<th class="head">required</th>
<th class="head">default</th>
<th class="head">comments</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>name</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>name of the user (role) to add or remove</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>password</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>set the user&#8217;s password</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>db</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>name of an existing database to grant user access to</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>login_user</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>user (role) used to authenticate with</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>login_password</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>password used to authenticate with</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>login_host</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>localhost</td>
<td>host running MySQL. Default (blank) implies localhost</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>priv</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>MySQL priveledges string</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>state</td>
<td>no</td>
<td>present</td>
<td>&#8216;absent&#8217; or &#8216;present&#8217;</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Example action from Ansible <a class="reference internal" href="playbooks.html"><em>Playbooks</em></a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>- name: Create database user
action: mysql_user loginpass=$mysql_root_password name=bob passwd=12345 priv=*.*:ALL state=present
- name: Ensure no user named 'sally' exists
action: mysql_user loginpass=$mysql_root_password name=sally state=absent</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="ohai">
<span id="id11"></span><h2>ohai<a class="headerlink" href="#ohai" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id14"></span><h2>ohai<a class="headerlink" href="#ohai" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Similar to the <a class="reference internal" href="#facter"><em>facter</em></a> module, this returns JSON inventory data.
Ohai data is a bit more verbose and nested than facter.</p>
<p>Requires that &#8216;ohai&#8217; be installed on the remote end.</p>
@ -684,7 +928,7 @@ support change hooks, nor does it make any changes on the system.</p>
<a class="reference internal" href="#setup"><em>setup</em></a> module behind the scenes instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="ping">
<span id="id12"></span><h2>ping<a class="headerlink" href="#ping" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id15"></span><h2>ping<a class="headerlink" href="#ping" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>A trivial test module, this module always returns the integer <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">1</span></tt> on
successful contact.</p>
<p>This module does not support change hooks and is informative only - it
@ -717,7 +961,7 @@ host before using this module.</p>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>db</td>
<tr><td>name</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>name of the database to add or remove</td>
@ -775,7 +1019,7 @@ host before using this module.</p>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>user</td>
<tr><td>name</td>
<td>yes</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>name of the user (role) to add or remove</td>
@ -817,7 +1061,7 @@ host before using this module.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="raw">
<span id="id13"></span><h2>raw<a class="headerlink" href="#raw" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id16"></span><h2>raw<a class="headerlink" href="#raw" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Executes a low-down and dirty SSH command, not going through the module subsystem.</p>
<p>This is useful and should only be done in two cases. The first case is installing
python-simplejson on older (python 2.4 and before) hosts that need it as a dependency
@ -832,7 +1076,7 @@ for this module.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="service">
<span id="id14"></span><h2>service<a class="headerlink" href="#service" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id17"></span><h2>service<a class="headerlink" href="#service" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Controls services on remote machines.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
@ -883,7 +1127,7 @@ service name=httpd state=reloaded</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="setup">
<span id="id15"></span><h2>setup<a class="headerlink" href="#setup" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id18"></span><h2>setup<a class="headerlink" href="#setup" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>This module is automatically called by playbooks to gather useful variables about remote hosts that can be used
in playbooks. It can also be executed directly by /usr/bin/ansible to check what variables are available
to a host.</p>
@ -965,7 +1209,7 @@ on your remote systems.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="shell">
<span id="id16"></span><h2>shell<a class="headerlink" href="#shell" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id19"></span><h2>shell<a class="headerlink" href="#shell" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The shell module takes the command name followed by a list of
arguments, space delimited. It is almost exactly like the command module
but runs the command through the user&#8217;s configured shell on the remote node.</p>
@ -983,7 +1227,7 @@ command was running.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="template">
<span id="id17"></span><h2>template<a class="headerlink" href="#template" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id20"></span><h2>template<a class="headerlink" href="#template" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Templates a file out to a remote server.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
@ -1023,7 +1267,7 @@ a relative or absolute path.</td>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="user">
<span id="id18"></span><h2>user<a class="headerlink" href="#user" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id21"></span><h2>user<a class="headerlink" href="#user" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Creates user accounts, manipulates existing user accounts, and removes user accounts.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
@ -1122,7 +1366,7 @@ user name=mdehaan state=absent force=yes</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="virt">
<span id="id19"></span><h2>virt<a class="headerlink" href="#virt" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id22"></span><h2>virt<a class="headerlink" href="#virt" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Manages virtual machines supported by libvirt. Requires that libvirt be installed
on the managed machine.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
@ -1182,7 +1426,7 @@ ansible host -m virt -a "command=virttype"</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="yum">
<span id="id20"></span><h2>yum<a class="headerlink" href="#yum" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<span id="id23"></span><h2>yum<a class="headerlink" href="#yum" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Will install, upgrade, remove, and list packages with the yum package manager.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>

@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ Manages apt-packages (such as for Debian/Ubuntu).
| | | | behavior works as apt's default behavior, 'no' does not install |
| | | | recommended packages. Suggested packages are never installed. |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| force | no | no | If 'yes', force installs/removes. |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Example action from Ansible :doc:`playbooks`::
@ -271,6 +273,34 @@ Example action from Ansible :doc:`playbooks`::
file path=/some/path state=directory setype=httpd_sys_content_t
file path=/some/path state=directory context=default
.. _get_url:
get_url
```````
Downloads files from http, https, or ftp to the remote server. The remote server must have direct
access to the remote resource.
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| parameter | required | default | comments |
+====================+==========+=========+============================================================================+
| url | yes | | http, https, or ftp URL |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| dest | yes | | absolute path of where to download the file to. If dest is a directory, |
| | | | the basename of the file on the remote server will be used. |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| OTHERS | no | | all arguments accepted by the file module also work here |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Example action from Ansible :doc:`playbooks`::
- name: Grab a bunch of jQuery stuff
action: get_url url=http://code.jquery.com/$item dest=${jquery_directory} mode=0444
with_items:
- jquery.min.js
- mobile/latest/jquery.mobile.min.js
- ui/jquery-ui-git.css
.. _git:
git
@ -285,10 +315,10 @@ Deploys software (or files) from git checkouts.
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| dest | yes | | absolute path of where the repo should be checked out to |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| version | | | what version to check out -- either the git SHA, the literal string |
| version | no | HEAD | what version to check out -- either the git SHA, the literal string |
| | | | 'HEAD', branch name, or a tag name. |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| remote | | origin | name of the remote branch |
| remote | no | origin | name of the remote branch |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Example action from Ansible :doc:`playbooks`::
@ -320,6 +350,98 @@ Example action from Ansible :doc:`playbooks`::
group name=somegroup state=present
.. _mount:
mount
`````
The mount module controls active and configured mount points (fstab).
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| parameter | required | default | comments |
+====================+==========+=========+============================================================================+
| name | yes | | path to the mountpoint, ex: /mnt/foo |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| src | yes | | device to be mounted |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| fstype | yes | | fstype |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| opts | no | | mount options (see fstab docs) |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| dump | no | | dump (see fstab docs) |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| passno | no | | passno (see fstab docs) |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| state | yes | | 'present', 'absent', 'mounted', or 'unmounted'. If mounted/unmounted, |
| | | | the device will be actively mounted or unmounted as well as just |
| | | | configured in fstab. 'absent', and 'present' only deal with fstab. |
+--------------------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
.. _mysql_db:
mysql_db
````````
Add or remove MySQL databases from a remote host.
+--------------------+----------+----------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| parameter | required | default | comments |
+====================+==========+==========+=============================================================================+
| name | yes | | name of the database to add or remove |
+--------------------+----------+-----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| login_user | no | | user used to authenticate with |
+--------------------+----------+-----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| login_password | no | | password used to authenticate with |
+--------------------+----------+-----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| login_host | no | localhost | host running the database |
+--------------------+----------+-----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| state | no | present | 'absent' or 'present' |
+--------------------+----------+-----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| collation | no | | collation mode |
+--------------------+----------+-----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| encoding | no | | encoding mode |
+--------------------+----------+-----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Example action from Ansible :doc:`playbooks`::
- name: Create database
action: mysql_db loginpass=$mysql_root_password db=bobdata state=present
mysql_user
``````````
Adds or removes a user from a MySQL database.
+--------------------+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| parameter | required | default | comments |
+====================+==========+============+============================================================================+
| name | yes | | name of the user (role) to add or remove |
+--------------------+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| password | yes | | set the user's password |
+--------------------+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| db | yes | | name of an existing database to grant user access to |
+--------------------+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| login_user | no | | user (role) used to authenticate with |
+--------------------+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| login_password | no | | password used to authenticate with |
+--------------------+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| login_host | no | localhost | host running MySQL. Default (blank) implies localhost |
+--------------------+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| priv | no | | MySQL priveledges string |
+--------------------+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| state | no | present | 'absent' or 'present' |
+--------------------+----------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Example action from Ansible :doc:`playbooks`::
- name: Create database user
action: mysql_user loginpass=$mysql_root_password name=bob passwd=12345 priv=*.*:ALL state=present
- name: Ensure no user named 'sally' exists
action: mysql_user loginpass=$mysql_root_password name=sally state=absent
.. _ohai:
ohai
@ -370,7 +492,7 @@ host before using this module.
+--------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| parameter | required | default | comments |
+====================+==========+==========+============================================================================+
| db | yes | | name of the database to add or remove |
| name | yes | | name of the database to add or remove |
+--------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| login_user | no | postgres | user (role) used to authenticate with PostgreSQL |
+--------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
@ -407,7 +529,7 @@ host before using this module.
+--------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| parameter | required | default | comments |
+====================+==========+==========+============================================================================+
| user | yes | | name of the user (role) to add or remove |
| name | yes | | name of the user (role) to add or remove |
+--------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| password | yes | | set the user's password |
+--------------------+----------+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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