The ipahost management module was not able to add several hosts at once.
Addtionally there have been settings missing.

ansible_freeipa_module has been extended to provide two additional functions
that are needed to simplify the extension of the ipahost module:

    gen_add_del_lists(user_list, res_list)
    encode_certificate(cert)

gen_add_del_lists will generate the lists for the addition and removal of
members using the provided user and ipa settings.

encode_certificate will encode a certificate using base64 with also taking
FreeIPA and Python versions into account.

The missing settings in ipahost have been:

    certificate
    managedby_host
    principal
    create_keytab_[user,group,host,hostgroup]
    retrieve_keytab_[user,group,host,hostgroup]
    sshpubkey
    userclass
    auth_ind
    requires_pre_auth
    ok_as_delegate
    ok_to_auth_as_delegate

The README-host.md file has been updated to provide information about the
new settings and also the members. Also examples for the new things have
been added.

New example playbooks have been added:

    playbooks/host/add-host.yml
    playbooks/host/host-member-allow_create_keytab-absent.yml
    playbooks/host/host-member-allow_create_keytab-present.yml
    playbooks/host/host-member-allow_retrieve_keytab-absent.yml
    playbooks/host/host-member-allow_retrieve_keytab-present.yml
    playbooks/host/host-member-certificate-absent.yml
    playbooks/host/host-member-certificate-present.yml
    playbooks/host/host-member-managedby_host-absent.yml
    playbooks/host/host-member-managedby_host-present.yml
    playbooks/host/host-member-principal-absent.yml
    playbooks/host/host-member-principal-present.yml
    playbooks/host/host-present-with-allow_create_keytab.yml
    playbooks/host/host-present-with-allow_retrieve_keytab.yml
    playbooks/host/host-present-with-certificate.yml
    playbooks/host/host-present-with-managedby_host.yml
    playbooks/host/host-present-with-principal.yml
    playbooks/host/host-present-with-randompassword.yml
    playbooks/host/host-present.yml
    playbooks/host/hosts-member-certificate-absent.yml
    playbooks/host/hosts-member-certificate-present.yml
    playbooks/host/hosts-member-managedby_host-absent.yml
    playbooks/host/hosts-member-managedby_host-present.yml
    playbooks/host/hosts-member-principal-absent.yml
    playbooks/host/hosts-member-principal-present.yml
    playbooks/host/hosts-present-with-certificate.yml
    playbooks/host/hosts-present-with-managedby_host.yml
    playbooks/host/hosts-present-with-randompasswords.yml

New tests have been added for the module:

    tests/host/certificate/cert1.der
    tests/host/certificate/cert1.pem
    tests/host/certificate/cert2.der
    tests/host/certificate/cert2.pem
    tests/host/certificate/cert3.der
    tests/host/certificate/cert3.pem
    tests/host/certificate/private1.key
    tests/host/certificate/private2.key
    tests/host/certificate/private3.key
    tests/host/certificate/test_host_certificate.yml
    tests/host/certificate/test_hosts_certificate.yml
    tests/host/test_host.yml
    tests/host/test_host_allow_create_keytab.yml
    tests/host/test_host_allow_retrieve_keytab.yml
    tests/host/test_host_managedby_host.yml
    tests/host/test_host_principal.yml
    tests/host/test_host_random.yml
    tests/host/test_hosts.yml
    tests/host/test_hosts_managedby_host.yml
    tests/host/test_hosts_principal.yml

This patch allows the connection to the ipa api to use a context different
than 'server', if needed.

With IPA 4.5 integers for examle in pwpolicy_find are returned as
integer values. The internally generated value will be converted from
integer to string (using to_text) if the value from find call result
is a string (or unicode for Python2).

The function api_get_realm is returning the realm of a connected FreeIPA
api. This is needed for proper principal checks in the extended ipauser
module that supports principals now.

The conversion is needed because older FreeIPA versions are returning
tuples in some cases instead of lists. To be able to compare them the
conversion to a list is needed.

to_text has not been imported from ansible.module_utils._text but it was
used in _afm_convert. The import has been added.

The module_params_get function can and should be used as a replacement of
ansible_module.params.get. For Python2 it is needed to convert parameters
to unicode. Otherwise there will be an error in the FreeIPA API command.

The private function _afm_convert has been added to do the conversion
recursively.

api_check_param can be used to verify if params are available for a command
in the used FreeIPA version. The function has been added as api is normally
not imported into modules.

The order of lists returned by find commands is not guaranteed. Therefore
lists are now converted to sets to compare them properly.

api_command is always used within try clause, therefore it is not needed
to have an extra try clause within api_command. Additionally it is needed
to get the dofferent errors in the next level.

The GSSAPI can be enabled in the management modules with either the
KRB5CCNAME or the KRB5_CLIENT_KTNAME environment variable.

For KRB5CCNAME it is needed to create a ccache file

  kinit admin@TEST.LOCAL -c /root/admin.ccache

that is transferred to the nodes (here into /root) and activated in the
playbook with

  environment:
    KRB5CCNAME: /root/admin.ccache

For KRB5_CLIENT_KTNAME a admin keytab has to be generated

  ipa-getkeytab -s ipaserver.test.local -p admin@TEST.LOCAL -k \
  /root/admin.keytab

that is transferred to the nodes (here into /root) and activated in the
playbook with

  environment:
    KRB5_CLIENT_KTNAME: /root/admin.keytab

It will be needed to set ipaadmin_principal if the admin principal is not
admin.

The management modules can be used without a password in this case.

For debug and error reporting it is needed to have the ansible module also
in the valid_creds function.

date_format parses the supported date formats and creates a datetime object.

compare_args_ipa compares generated args with args returned by IPA command
find_ functions.

There are now two topology management modules placed in the plugins folder:

  plugins/modules/ipatopologysegment.py
  plugins/modules/ipatopologysuffix.py

Topology segments can be added, removed and reinitialized with the
ipatopologysegment module. Also it is possible to verify topology suffixes
with the ipatopologysuffix module.

A new module_utils for plugins has been added:

  plugins/module_utils/ansible_freeipa_module.py

And documentation for the modules:

  README-topology.md

New sample playbooks are available in playbooks/topology:

  playbooks/topology/add-topologysegment.yml
  playbooks/topology/delete-topologysegment.yml
  playbooks/topology/reinitialize-topologysegment.yml
  playbooks/topology/verify-topologysuffix.yml

The plugins folder can be used with the new Ansible Collections supported
by Ansible 2.8 and Ansible galaxy 3.2.