Ansible subscription-manager: Register RHEL with redhat_subscription Module — Video Tutorial

How to register a system with Red Hat Subscription-Manager with Ansible? I'm going to show you a live Playbook and some simple Ansible code. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot. Ansible register a system with Red Hat Subscription-Manager - community.general.redhat_subscription - Manage registration and subscriptions to RHSM using the subscription-manager command Today we're talking about the Ansible module redhat_subscription. The full name is `community.general.redhat_subscription`, which means that is part of the collection `community.general` maintained by the Ansible community Manage registration and subscriptions to RHSM using the subscription-manager command. This module is specific for RedHat Enterprise Linux. Parameters - state _string_ - present/absent - username _string_ - access.redhat.com or Satellite 6 username - password _string_ - access.redhat.com or Satellite 6 password - auto_attach _boolean_ - no/yes auto-consume available subscriptions - pool_id _list_ - subscription pool IDs to consume - pool _string_ - '^(Red Hat Enterprise Server|Red Hat Virtualization)$' - consumer_id _string_ - resume a previous registration Let me summarize the main parameters. The `state` parameter allows you to specify if you want to add or remove a registration from the target machine. The username and password allow you to specify the `access.redhat.com` website credential or Satellite 6 credential. Once the machine is registered you need to define which subscription to consume. The `auto_attach` allows you to auto consume all the available subscriptions for the Machine. Alternatively you can specify manually the ID in the `pool_id` list or a text with all the products that you want to add. Another interesting option is the parameter `customer_id` to resume a previous registration. ## Playbook Live Playbook of how to register a system with Red Hat Subscription-Manager with Ansible playbook code - subscription-manager.yml ```yaml --- - name: subscription-manager module Playbook hosts: all become: true vars: subscription_username: "username" subscription_password: "password" tasks: - name: register with subscription-manager community.general.redhat_subscription: state: present username: "{{ subscription_username }}" password: "{{ subscription_password }}" auto_attach: true ``` execution ```bash $ ansible-playbook -i virtualmachines/demo/inventory register\ RedHat\ subscription/subscription_manager.yml PLAY [subscription-manager module Playbook] *********************************************************** TASK [Gathering Facts] **************************************************************************** ok: [demo.example.com] TASK [register with subscription-manager] ********************************************************* changed: [demo.example.com] PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************************** dem