Freeipa module

Setup

Configure credentials via environment variables. We recommend sourcing them through 1Password or your secrets manager rather than committing them to the shell rc.

Official API reference

weave commands for this module are checked against the vendor's published API.

FreeIPA API

Variable	Description	Status
FREEIPA_HOST	Required for authentication.	required
FREEIPA_USERNAME	Required for authentication.	required
FREEIPA_PASSWORD	Required for authentication.	required

Sanity-check the wiring:

weave secrets check
weave freeipa --help
weave doctor   # reports FREEIPA_HOST status

Capabilities

What this module can do, by entity and verb. ✓ means a working CLI surface; · means not (yet) wired.

Entity	find	list	show	do	snapshot	diff	apply
group	·	✓	·	·	·	·	·
hbac-rule	·	✓	·	·	·	·	·
host	·	✓	·	·	·	·	·
user	✓	✓	·	·	✓	✓	✓

Commands

Every registered CLI command, grouped by verb. Each example uses placeholder arguments — substitute real values for your environment.

find (1)

find user

read

Find a user by uid or email.

weave freeipa find user <identifier>

list (4)

list groups

read

List groups.

weave freeipa list groups <arg>

list hbac

read

List HBAC rules.

weave freeipa list hbac <arg>

list hosts

read

List enrolled hosts.

weave freeipa list hosts <arg>

list users

read

List users.

weave freeipa list users <arg>

snapshot / diff / apply are generated automatically from the State Kinds declared on this module — see the State kinds section below for per-kind details. Workflow: snapshot → edit YAML → diff → apply --yes (or confirm interactively; apply --dry-run previews the same diff).

State kinds

Resources this module can snapshot and diff; apply where the kind supports live writes (see Round-trip per kind). Always run diff before apply; use --yes in automation after review. Files live under .weave-state/freeipa/.

This module is on the thinner integration path — use snapshot / diff for audit; confirm apply per kind below before relying on writes.

users

snapshot diff apply

freeipa users — field-level apply via REST.

Scope: —
Round-trip: Full round-trip — snapshot, diff, apply.

State file skeleton

module: freeipa
kind: users
items:
  - # <fields specific to this kind — see snapshot output>

Workflows

End-to-end recipes from operators who already run this module in production. Copy, adapt, and put under change-control.

Users audit

Snapshot and diff users.

weave freeipa snapshot users
$EDITOR .weave-state/freeipa/users.yaml
weave freeipa diff users
weave freeipa apply users

Terraform parity

For each Terraform resource in the canonical provider, here's the equivalent live-API verb in weave. Use this as a migration cheat-sheet, not a 1:1 contract — weave deliberately stays in the live-state lane, not the desired-state lane.

Terraform resource	weave equivalent
freeipa_users	weave freeipa snapshot/diff/apply users Snapshot/diff for audit; confirm apply on the module page.

Troubleshooting & source

Missing credentials

Run weave doctor — it reports which env vars (including FREEIPA_HOST) are set and which are blank.

Unexpected behaviour from a state apply

Re-run weave freeipa diff <kind> to confirm the controller's current state, then re-snapshot before the next apply. The driver always re-snapshots before diffing.

Open the source

The module lives at https://github.com/andy-broyles/weavewhatever/tree/main/src/weave/modules/freeipa. File a bug or feature request at https://github.com/andy-broyles/weavewhatever/issues.