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Bug 1878034 - [RFE] Add/override interfaces to provisioned hosts
Summary: [RFE] Add/override interfaces to provisioned hosts
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Ansible Collection
Version: 6.7.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
high
Target Milestone: 6.9.0
Assignee: Evgeni Golov
QA Contact: Peter Ondrejka
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-09-11 06:48 UTC by Luka Bac
Modified: 2024-10-01 16:51 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ansible-collection-redhat-satellite-1.5.0
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Last Closed: 2021-04-21 13:17:42 UTC
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Github theforeman foreman-ansible-modules issues 757 0 None closed allow host interfaces management 2021-02-18 08:33:08 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:1313 0 None None None 2021-04-21 13:17:58 UTC

Description Luka Bac 2020-09-11 06:48:41 UTC 
Description of problem:
When trying to provision a machine using the host module from the Red Hat Satellite collection, there is currently no way to add extra network interfaces or override the settings of the ones provided by the compute profile/compute resource pair.

The API offers the `interfaces_attributes` parameter to pass to the /api/hosts/ POST call that creates a host, which should be available in the host module as well. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.0.1

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There is an issue already opened upstream on this matter: https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/issues/757
Comment 1 Luka Bac 2020-09-11 07:01:39 UTC 
Currently, the customer that has this feature request works around this issue by providing the following patch to the Red Hat Satellite Collection host module:

--- plugins/modules/host.py 2020-09-11 08:50:37.761582620 +0200
+++ plugins/modules/host.py 2020-09-11 08:50:34.532578390 +0200
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@
             owner_type=dict(type='invisible'),
             provision_method=dict(choices=['build', 'image', 'bootdisk']),
             image=dict(type='entity'),
+            interfaces_attributes=dict(type='list'),
         ),
         mutually_exclusive=[
             ['owner', 'owner_group']



This then allows the customer (that provisions on VMware) to pass the interfaces_attributes list parameter to the host module like so:

    [...]
    interfaces_attributes:
      - {}
      - primary: 1
        managed: 1
        compute_attributes:
          type: VirtualVmxnet3
          network: portgroup123

Passing it like this means that we can now override the NICs provided by default by the compute_profile/compute_resource pair and also create new ones.

However, this is suboptimal for at least two reasons
- if we want to add a NIC we have to know exactly how many NICs are provided by default so that we pass as many empty elements to the list
- We cannot pass the 'friendly' network name that is available in the Satellite UI because it is not looked up by the module, and instead have to pass the raw portgroup, which has no relation to the VLAN for instance.
Comment 2 Evgeni Golov 2020-09-11 13:03:26 UTC 
Dropping the Patch keyword as the provided patch is incomplete.
Comment 8 Peter Ondrejka 2021-01-22 11:15:17 UTC 
Verified on Satellite 6.9 snap 9 via automation (test_crud[host_interface_attributes])
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2021-04-21 13:17:42 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: Satellite 6.9 Release), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1313
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