The service module allows to ensure presence and absence of services.
- Service management
FreeIPA versions 4.4.0 and up are supported by the ipaservice module.
Some variables are only supported on newer versions of FreeIPA. Check Variables
section for details.
Controller
- Ansible version: 2.14+
Node
- Supported FReeIPA version (see above)
Example inventory file
[ipaserver]
ipaserver.test.local
Example playbook to make sure service is present:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
# Ensure service is present
- ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
name: HTTP/www.example.com
certificate: |
- MIIC/zCCAeegAwIBAgIUMNHIbn+hhrOVew/2WbkteisV29QwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQAw
DzENMAsGA1UEAwwEdGVzdDAeFw0yMDAyMDQxNDQxMDhaFw0zMDAyMDExNDQxMDhaMA8xDT
ALBgNVBAMMBHRlc3QwggEiMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4IBDwAwggEKAoIBAQC+XVVGFYpH
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5y1Zp0WjMWGCJC6/zw7FDG4OW5r2GJiCXZYdJ0UonY9ZtoVLJPrp2/DAv1m5DtnDhBYqic
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2nSMngkbami3CbSmKZOCpgQIiSlQeDJ8oGjWFMLDymYSHoVOIXHwNoooyEiaio3693l6no
obyGv49zyCVLVR1DC7i6RJ186ql0av+D4vPoiF5mX7+sKC2E8xEj9uKQ5GTWRh59VnRBVC
/SiMJ/H78tJnBAvoBwXxSEvj8Z3Kjm/BQqZfv4IBsA5yqV7MVq
pac_type: PAD
auth_ind: otp
requires_pre_auth: false
ok_as_delegate: false
ok_to_auth_as_delegate: false
skip_host_check: true
force: true
Example playbook to make sure service is absent:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
# Ensure service is present
- ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
name: HTTP/www.example.com
state: absent
Example playbook to make sure service is disabled:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
# Ensure service is present
- ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
name: HTTP/www.example.com
state: disabled
Example playbook to add a service even if the host object does not exist, but only if it does have a DNS entry:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
# Ensure service is present
- ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
name: HTTP/www.example.com
skip_host_check: true
force: false
Example playbook to add a service if it does have a DNS entry, but host object exits:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
# Ensure service is present
- ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
name: HTTP/www.example.com
skip_host_check: false
force: true
Example playbook to ensure service has a certificate:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
# Ensure service member certificate is present.
- ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
name: HTTP/www.example.com
certificate: |
- MIIC/zCCAeegAwIBAgIUMNHIbn+hhrOVew/2WbkteisV29QwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQELBQAw
DzENMAsGA1UEAwwEdGVzdDAeFw0yMDAyMDQxNDQxMDhaFw0zMDAyMDExNDQxMDhaMA8xDT
ALBgNVBAMMBHRlc3QwggEiMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4IBDwAwggEKAoIBAQC+XVVGFYpH
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obyGv49zyCVLVR1DC7i6RJ186ql0av+D4vPoiF5mX7+sKC2E8xEj9uKQ5GTWRh59VnRBVC
/SiMJ/H78tJnBAvoBwXxSEvj8Z3Kjm/BQqZfv4IBsA5yqV7MVq
action: member
state: present
Example playbook to add a principal to the service:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
# Principal host/principal.example.com present in service.
- ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
name: HTTP/www.example.com
principal: host/principal.example.com
action: member
Example playbook to enable a host to manage service:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
# Ensure host can manage service, again.
- ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
name: HTTP/www.example.com
host: host1.example.com
action: member
Example playbook to allow users, groups, hosts or hostgroups to create a keytab of this service:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
# Allow users, groups, hosts or host groups to create a keytab of this service.
- ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
name: HTTP/www.example.com
allow_create_keytab_user:
- user01
- user02
allow_create_keytab_group:
- group01
- group02
allow_create_keytab_host:
- host1.example.com
- host2.example.com
allow_create_keytab_hostgroup:
- hostgroup01
- hostgroup02
action: member
Example playbook to allow users, groups, hosts or hostgroups to retrieve a keytab of this service:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
# Allow users, groups, hosts or host groups to retrieve a keytab of this service.
- ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
name: HTTP/www.example.com
allow_retrieve_keytab_user:
- user01
- user02
allow_retrieve_keytab_group:
- group01
- group02
allow_retrieve_keytab_host:
- "{{ host1_fqdn }}"
- "{{ host2_fqdn }}"
allow_retrieve_keytab_hostgroup:
- hostgroup01
- hostgroup02
action: member
Example playbook to ensure presence of serveral services in a single task:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
tasks:
- name: Ensure services are present
ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
services:
- name: HTTP/www.example.com
principal:
- host/host1.example.com
- name: mysvc/www.example.com
pac_type: NONE
ok_as_delegate: yes
ok_to_auth_as_delegate: yes
- name: HTTP/www.example.com
allow_create_keytab_user:
- user01
- user02
allow_create_keytab_group:
- group01
- group02
allow_create_keytab_host:
- host1.example.com
- host2.example.com
allow_create_keytab_hostgroup:
- hostgroup01
- hostgroup02
- name: mysvc/host2.example.com
auth_ind: otp,radius
Example playbook to ensure presence of serveral services in a single task with member
action
:
---
- name: Playbook to manage IPA service.
hosts: ipaserver
become: true
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- name: Ensure service host members are present
ipaservice:
ipaadmin_password: SomeADMINpassword
services:
- name: HTTP/www1.example.com
host: host1.example.com
- name: HTTP/www2.example.com
host: host2.example.com
action: member
Variable | Description | Required |
---|---|---|
ipaadmin_principal |
The admin principal is a string and defaults to admin |
no |
ipaadmin_password |
The admin password is a string and is required if there is no admin ticket available on the node | no |
ipaapi_context |
The context in which the module will execute. Executing in a server context is preferred. If not provided context will be determined by the execution environment. Valid values are server and client . |
no |
ipaapi_ldap_cache |
Use LDAP cache for IPA connection. The bool setting defaults to yes. (bool) | no |
name | service |
The list of service name strings. name with service variables or services containing service variables need to be used. |
no |
action |
Work on service or member level. It can be on of member or service and defaults to service . |
no |
state |
The state to ensure. It can be one of present , absent , or disabled , default: present . |
no |
Service Variables:
Variable | Description | Required |
---|---|---|
certificate | usercertificate |
Base-64 encoded service certificate. | no |
pac_type | ipakrbauthzdata |
Supported PAC type. It can be one of MS-PAC , PAD , or NONE . Use empty string to reset pac_type to the initial value. |
no |
auth_ind | krbprincipalauthind |
Defines an allow list for Authentication Indicators. It can be any of otp , radius , pkinit , hardened , idp or "" . An additional check ensures that only types can be used that are supported by the IPA version. Use empty string to reset auth_ind to the initial value. |
no |
requires_pre_auth | ipakrbrequirespreauth |
Pre-authentication is required for the service. Default to true. (bool) | no |
ok_as_delegate | ipakrbokasdelegate |
Client credentials may be delegated to the service. Default to false. (bool) | no |
ok_to_auth_as_delegate | ipakrboktoauthasdelegate |
The service is allowed to authenticate on behalf of a client. Default to false. (bool) | no |
skip_host_check |
Force service to be created even when host object does not exist to manage it. Only usable with IPA versions 4.7.0 and up. Default to false. (bool) | no |
force |
Force principal name even if host not in DNS. Default to false. (bool) | no |
host | managedby_host |
Hosts that can manage the service. | no |
principal | krbprincipalname |
List of principal aliases for the service. | no |
allow_create_keytab_user | ipaallowedtoperform_write_keys_user |
Users allowed to create a keytab of this host. | no |
allow_create_keytab_group | ipaallowedtoperform_write_keys_group |
Groups allowed to create a keytab of this host. | no |
allow_create_keytab_host | ipaallowedtoperform_write_keys_host |
Hosts allowed to create a keytab of this host. | no |
allow_create_keytab_hostgroup | ipaallowedtoperform_write_keys_group |
Host groups allowed to create a keytab of this host. | no |
allow_retrieve_keytab_user | ipaallowedtoperform_read_keys_user |
Users allowed to retrieve a keytab of this host. | no |
allow_retrieve_keytab_group | ipaallowedtoperform_read_keys_group |
Groups allowed to retrieve a keytab of this host. | no |
allow_retrieve_keytab_host | ipaallowedtoperform_read_keys_host |
Hosts allowed to retrieve a keytab from of host. | no |
allow_retrieve_keytab_hostgroup | ipaallowedtoperform_read_keys_hostgroup |
Host groups allowed to retrieve a keytab of this host. | no |
smb |
Service is an SMB service. If set, cifs/ will be prefixed to the service name if needed. |
no |
netbiosname |
NETBIOS name for the SMB service. Only with smb: yes . |
no |
continue | delete_continue |
Continuous mode: don't stop on errors. Valid only if state is absent . Default: no (bool) |
no |
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