Automating VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) with Ansible

In the world of IT operations, automation is the key to efficiency and consistency. VMware’s vRealize Operations (vROps) provides powerful monitoring and management capabilities for virtualized environments. Integrating vROps with Ansible, an open-source automation tool, can take your infrastructure management to the next level. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to achieve this integration and demonstrate its benefits with a practical example.

What is vRealize Operations (vROps)?

vRealize Operations (vROps) is a comprehensive monitoring and analytics solution from VMware. It helps IT administrators manage the performance, capacity, and overall health of their virtual environments. Key features of vROps include:

Why Integrate vROps with Ansible?

Integrating vROps with Ansible allows you to automate routine tasks, enforce consistent configurations, and rapidly respond to changes or issues in your virtual environment. This integration enables you to:

Setting Up the Integration

Prerequisites

Before you start, ensure you have:

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Configure API Access in vROps

First, ensure you have the necessary API access in vROps. You’ll need:

Step 2: Install Ansible

If you haven’t installed Ansible yet, you can do so by following these commands:

sh

sudo apt update

sudo apt install ansible

Step 3: Create an Ansible Playbook

Create an Ansible playbook to interact with vROps. Below is an example playbook that retrieves the status of vROps resources.

Note: to use the other api end points you will need to acquire the token and set it as a fact to pass later.

Example

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If you want to acquire the auth token:

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– name: Authenticate with vROps and Check vROps Status

  hosts: localhost

  vars:

    vrops_host: “your-vrops-host”

    vrops_username: “your-username”

    vrops_password: “your-password”

  tasks:

    – name: Authenticate with vROps

      uri:

        url: “https://{{ vrops_host }}/suite-api/api/auth/token/acquire”

        method: POST

        body_format: json

        body:

          username: “{{ vrops_username }}”

          password: “{{ vrops_password }}”

        headers:

          Content-Type: “application/json“

        validate_certs: no

      register: auth_response

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    – name: Fail if authentication failed

      fail:

        msg: “Authentication with vROps failed: {{ auth_response.json }}”

      when: auth_response.status != 200

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    – name: Set auth token as fact

      set_fact:

        auth_token: “{{ auth_response.json.token }}”

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    – name: Get vROps status

      uri:

        url: “https://{{ vrops_host }}/suite-api/api/resources”

        method: GET

        headers:

          Authorization: “vRealizeOpsToken {{ auth_token }}”

          Content-Type: “application/json“

        validate_certs: no

      register: vrops_response

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    – name: Display vROps status

      debug:

        msg: “vROps response: {{ vrops_response.json }}”

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Save this playbook to a file, for example, check_vrops_status.yml.

Step 4: Define Variables

Create a variables file to store your vROps credentials and host information.
Save it as vars.yml:

vrops_host: your-vrops-host

vrops_username: your-username

vrops_password: your-password

Step 5: Run the Playbook

Execute the playbook using the following command:

sh

ansible-playbook -e @vars.yml check_vrops_status.yml

This above command runs the playbook and retrieves the status of vROps resources, displaying the results if you used the first example.

Here are some of the key API functions you can use:

The Authentication to use the endpoints listed below, you will need to acquire the auth token and set it as a fact to pass to other tasks inside ansible to use with the various endpoints below.

Resource Management

Metrics and Data

Alerts and Notifications

Policies and Configurations

Dashboards and Reports

Capacity and Utilization

Additional Functionalities

These are just a few examples of the many functions available through the vROps REST API.

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So whether your using cloud or doing in house deploys. Tagging is a used a lot especially in cloud type environments. Which we will cover in later posts.

So a common reason to tag your vm is wanting to have the creation date and the type of server or environment its using, handy for backup solutions & other auditables.

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Pre-requisites: Assumed.

Step by Step:

Note: Okay for the custom attributes to work you need to get the MOID, UUID & Folder of the vm by using the vm name. So we need to gather facts about the vm and the set those facts as variables that we can pass to the next tasks.

 

– name: get list of facts

  vmware_guest_facts:

hostname: “{{ vcenter_host }}”

username: “{{ vcenter_username }}”

password: “{{ vcenter_password }}”

name: “{{ inventory_hostname }}”

    datacenter: “{{ vcenter_dc }}”

    validate_certs: False

  delegate_to: localhost

  ignore_errors: true

register: vm_facts

 

Note: So when we use the vmware_guest_facts module to gather the facts about the vm by register the facts to a variable “vm_facts”, which when you run the playbook with –vvvv will spit out the facst you can pass as indicated below..

       “hw_folder“: “/SysUnix/Testing“,

“hw_guest_full_name“: “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64-bit)”,

“hw_guest_ha_state“: true,

“hw_guest_id“: “rhel7_64Guest”,

“hw_interfaces“: [

“eth0”

],

“hw_is_template“: false,

“hw_memtotal_mb“: 2048,

“hw_name“: “v-sits-test4”,

“hw_power_status“: “poweredOn“,

“hw_processor_count“: 2,

“hw_product_uuid“: “4226d4e1-6be8-9447-5ced-b037075e2ffd”,

“hw_version“: “vmx-11”,

“instance_uuid“: “50263518-c95b-c3be-5c77-4e1ea69ec295”,

“ipv4”: “192.168.1.29“,

“ipv6”: null,

“module_hw“: true,

        “moid“: “vm-296678”,

“snapshots”: [],

“vimref“: “vim.VirtualMachine:vm-296678”,

“vnc“: {}

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.Note: Now that we have the UUID, MOID, & Folder. We now want to create static variables for UUID, MOID, & folder by using the previous variable we registered as “vm_facts”, and we want to set them as static variables by setting them as facts we can past to the tasks after. As indicated below. Again setting facts is the same as defining variables in bash. Just ansible way to do it.

 

– set_fact:

    vm_uuid: “{{ vm_facts.instance.instance_uuid }}”

– set_fact:

    moid: “{{ vm_facts.instance.moid }}”

– set_fact:

    vm_folder: “{{ vm_facts.instance.hw_folder }}”

 

Note: Now want to use the ansible server date and pass that as a variable so you don’t have to input the date as manual value each time you deploy a new host. So we want to grab the date and setup a static fact and then pass it as its own variable. Like we did above…

– name: Get Date

shell: date +%Y-%m-%d

register: date

  delegate_to: localhost

 

Note: We use shell module to get the date in the format we want, then register the result as the variable {{ date }}. We then set a static fact of the result and create another variable called date with using the result from the above.

– set_fact:

    date: “{{ date.stdout }}”

 

Note: We now want to pass all the fact to the “vmware_guest_custom_attributes” module UUID, MOID, DATE, and Folder indicated as below.

– name: Add multiple virtual machine custom attributes

  vmware_guest_custom_attributes:

hostname: “{{ vcenter_host }}”

username: “{{ vcenter_username }}”

password: “{{ vcenter_password }}”

name: “{{ inventory_hostname }}”

    datacenter: “{{ vcenter_dc }}”

    folder: “{{ vm_folder }}”

    uuid: “{{ vm_facts.instance.instance_uuid }}”

    moid: “{{ vm_facts.instance.moid }}”

state: present

    validate_certs: False

    use_instance_uuid: True

attributes:

– name: Creation Date

value: “{{ date }}”   

# – name: MyAttribute2 – Note: You can add additional attributes if you wish

# value: test2 – Note: You can add additional attributes if you wish

  delegate_to: localhost

register: attributes

 

Note: Okay so depending on which module you use, some require you to gather facts about the vmware categories. This is just incase you need the cateogory_id which is usually derived from using a REST API in json or other method. The “community.vmware.vmware_category_facts”will be able to pull the info and then you can pass it as a variable or a static value. IF YOU NEED, however this is NOT needed. If you use the “vmware_tag_manager” module”

 

– name: Gather facts about tag categories

  community.vmware.vmware_category_facts:

hostname: “{{ vcenter_host }}”

username: “{{ vcenter_username }}”

password: “{{ vcenter_password }}”

    validate_certs: no

  delegate_to: localhost

register: all_tag_category_facts

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ok: [v-sits-test4] => {

“changed”: false,

“invocation”: {

“module_args“: {

“hostname”: “vmware.nicktailor.com“,

“password”: “VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER”,

“port”: 443,

“protocol”: “https”,

“username”: “admin“,

“validate_certs“: false

}

},

“tag_category_facts“: [

{

“category_associable_types“: [

“VirtualMachine“

],

“category_cardinality“: “SINGLE”,

“category_description“: “VM Type – Clone, Decomm, Dev, Prod, SRM, SLM, Template or Test”,

“category_id“: “urn:vmomi:InventoryServiceCategory:f1024eb4-d7d4-49fe-9725-4dcba39fbe3b:GLOBAL”,

“category_name“: “VMType“,

“category_used_by“: []

},

{

“category_associable_types“: [

“VirtualMachine“

],

“category_cardinality“: “SINGLE”,

“category_description“: “Team or Department”,

“category_id“: “urn:vmomi:InventoryServiceCategory:888a0877-5335-4477-9347-6d8de5b3e60e:GLOBAL”,

“category_name“: “Team/Dept”,

“category_used_by“: []

}

]

}

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Note: Now that we want to create the tag for the vm using the ““vmware_tag_manager” module. The only variable that is passed from outside the defaults at the inventory_hostname level “host_var/nicktest1” is the {{ vm_tag }} Make sure you have this defined for the role to work properly.

 

– name: Add tags to a virtual machine

  vmware_tag_manager:

hostname: ‘{{ vcenter_host }}’

username: ‘{{ vcenter_username }}’

password: ‘{{ vcenter_password }}’

    validate_certs: no

    tag_names:

      – “{{ vm_tag }}” – passed at the host_var/nicktest1

    object_name: “{{ inventory_hostname }}”

    object_type: VirtualMachine

state: present

  delegate_to: localhost

 

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Run your playbook: from /etc/ansible

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QUICK OVERVIEW OF WHAT ANSIBLE IS..

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

Designed for multi-tier deployments since day one, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

It uses no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, so it’s easy to deploy – and most importantly, it uses a very simple language (YAML, in the form of Ansible Playbooks) that allow you to describe your automation jobs in a way that approaches plain English.

On this page, we’ll give you a really quick overview so you can see things in context. For more detail, hop over to docs.ansible.com.

EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE

Ansible works by connecting to your nodes and pushing out small programs, called “Ansible modules” to them. These programs are written to be resource models of the desired state of the system. Ansible then executes these modules (over SSH by default), and removes them when finished.

Your library of modules can reside on any machine, and there are no servers, daemons, or databases required. Typically you’ll work with your favorite terminal program, a text editor, and probably a version control system to keep track of changes to your content.

For the purposes of this post we are are going to dive into using “vmware_guest” module by way of using http api authentication session & cookies. There are many other python modules which you can search in the ansible documentation and or ansible-galaxy

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https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/index.html

Now it definitely helps to be able to code in python or at least be able to read python code, however completely not necessary. Anyone with basic understanding of bash scripting can learn ansible. I could teach a newbie ansible in a couple days. Sharing is caring.

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Anyone who says otherwise……don’t hire them.

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Ansible Setup: 

Pre-Module install Steps: 

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

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.Install PyVmomi: 

Collecting pyvmomi

Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ba/69/4e8bfd6b0aae49382e1ab9e3ce7de9ea6318eac007b3076e6006dbe5a7cd/pyvmomi-7.0.1.tar.gz (584kB)

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Installing collected packages: certifi, urllib3, idna, chardet, requests, six, pyvmomi

Found existing installation: certifi 2018.4.16

Uninstalling certifi-2018.4.16:

Successfully uninstalled certifi-2018.4.16

Found existing installation: urllib3 1.22

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Found existing installation: idna 2.6

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Found existing installation: requests 2.18.4

Uninstalling requests-2.18.4:

Successfully uninstalled requests-2.18.4

Found existing installation: six 1.9.0

Uninstalling six-1.9.0:

Successfully uninstalled six-1.9.0

Running setup.py install for pyvmomi … done

Successfully installed certifi-2020.12.5 chardet-4.0.0 idna-2.10 pyvmomi-7.0.1 requests-2.25.1 six-1.15.0 urllib3-1.26.2

You are using pip version 10.0.1, however version 20.3.3 is available.

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You should consider upgrading via the ‘pip install –upgrade pip’ command.

(You noticed this at the bottom)

A lot of the time you need to upgrade pip for the modules to install as python is always evolving at a fast pace

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So run

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[root@nick roles]# pip install –upgrade pip

Collecting pip

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Installing collected packages: pip

Found existing installation: pip 8.1.2

Uninstalling pip-8.1.2:

Successfully uninstalled pip-8.1.2

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You get the idea……

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.Vpshere – Pre-requistes for this to work:

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You will need a vmware user who has api access permission for the following items. If the user you have setup in vcenter is unable to see these items. This module will fail. You do not need a user with full admin privileges, which is what a lot of documentation says online cryptically. I have tested this and confirmed that is not the case. Obivously, its way better to just give admin privileges to the user and trust the people you hire and use ansible vault to hide the credentials. Which we will get into later….

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You can also check these parameters in your code by validating using assertions to see if they are all working with your user prior to moving on the next task.

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– vSphere API configuration

– VM details

– vcenter_host

– cluster

– datacenter

– folder

– vm_disk_size

– vm_cpu_count

– vm_memory

– vm_vlan

– vm_vlan_name

– vm_dvswitch

– vm_datatstore

–vmware tools and or open_vm_tools must installed the clone template (super important)

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Okay so now were on setting up the vmware_guest module using yaml code.

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Setting vmware_guest module on ansible:

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Now what I like to do is set everything up as a role in ansible to call in your playbooks, it keeps things cleaner and its much easier to find spacing mistakes in your code when writing in yaml. Lots of NBTo aid in checking for mistakes. But ultimately its experience. I’m a bit of both but I tend just pop a vi open and just write and much in there

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– name: Login into vCenter and get cookies

  delegate_to: localhost

  uri:

url: https://{{ vcenter_host }}/rest/com/vmware/cis/session

    force_basic_auth: yes

    validate_certs: no

method: POST

user: ‘{{ vcenter_username }}’

password: ‘{{ vcenter_password }}’

register: login

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2. Okay so this where we are now actually calling the vmware_guest module in yaml. You can see that the code has a lot of areas that are variablelised. These variable are passed in a couple of ways. You need to pass the defaults through the defaults directory we created earlier, and the second is host specific variables which will be under your host_vars directory under your inventory structure, which we will get into later.

 

Note: Now remember this is code to deploy from an existing cloned template you have sitting on datastore somewhere in your environment. The process to deploy a vm using kickstart using DHCP that’s bit different to setup I wrote this to help out those people who cant see the wisdom and efficiency of having DHCP’d deployments

You will be passing these variables

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– name: Create a VM

  vmware_guest:

hostname: “{{ vcenter_host }}”

username: “{{ vcenter_username }}”

password: “{{ vcenter_password }}”

    validate_certs: False

cluster: “{{ vcenter_cluster }}”

    datacenter: “{{ vcenter_dc }}”

 

Note: name: This will be the name of the new vm created. Keep in mind the vm host will also be setup with a shortname for the hostname of the server not the FQDN. You can probably fix this using vmshell or I used a completely separate role to setup the network for physical machines which uses jinja templates and inside the role I passed the new name as a variable. But that’s for another post

name: “{{ inventory_hostname }}”

folder: “{{ vm_folder }}”

template: “{{ VMTemplate }}”

state: “{{ vm_state }}”

Note: guest_id: this is what kind of OS will the VM Run, almost every hypervisor asks that prior to creating a vm. You can find the list online.

    guest_id: “{{ vm_guest_id }}”

Note: disk: this section you could technically pass it through as a variable in your host_vars on the specific hosts, but since were using a template. I kept these parameters static here inside the role.

disk:

– size_gb: 80

type: thin

datastore: “{{ vm_datastore }}”

– size_gb: 100

type: thin

datastore: “{{ vm_datastore }}”

hardware:

      memory_mb: “{{ vm_memory }}”

      num_cpus: “{{ vm_cpu_count }}”

      scsi: paravirtual

 

Note: Customization: This section is very important because without it your dns in /etc/resolv.conf will not be configured correctly. A lot of people have a hell of time with this on the net, as the parsing of this in yaml is bit tricky, and people resort to using vm_guest_file to update the /etc/resolv.conf, which sucks because now you need the root/pass via ssh. My way will work

customization:

      dns_servers: “{{ vm_dns_servers }}”

      dns_suffix: “{{ vm_dns_suffix }}”

Note: networks: This section is the section which will use vmware-tools or open_vm_tools to update the network config on host after powering on the vm, but before the OS is booted, provided you said to power it on in your host_var file. This section helps people get around the issue of having no DHCP and having to deploy each server using the same static address on a dedicated vlan. This section will go and update the vm network parameters and the template vm will deploy on a  whatever vlan, with different ip, gateway, netmask. It will also register a new mac address to the vm, so you don’t end up with vm’s with duplicate mac-addresses. Lastly, it will update /etc/hosts with the new ip and shortname of the server

networks:

– name: “{{ vm_vlan_name }}”

type: static

      dvswitch_name: “{{ vm_dvswitch }}”

      ip: “{{ vm_ip }}”

netmask: “{{ vm_netmask }}”

gateway: “{{ vm_gateway }}”

      start_connected: “{{ vm_connected }}”

# wait_for_ip_address: yes (this is if you are using DHCP)

  delegate_to: localhost

register: vm_deploy

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Note: This section is just spits out verbose information on the how the build went and the mac-address of the vm. This hand to pay attention to so you can ensure your template mac and your new vm don’t have duplicate macs. If you do. You will need to go into vshere find the VM. Remove the network and readd it manually, to register a new mac

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– debug:

var: vm_deploy.instance.hw_eth0.macaddress

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– debug:

var: deploy_vm

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– debug:

var: mac.

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vm_disks: 100

vm_cpu_count: 2

vm_state: present

vm_memory: 2048

#vm_datastore: vmfs-datastore1234

vcenter_username: BruceWayne

vcenter_password: ( you will put ansible_vault encrypted variable here, for now just put in your password for testing)

vm_dvswitch: DvSwitch

vcenter_cluster: ProdCluster

vcenter_host: vcenter.nicktailor.com

vcenter_dc: London

#vm_folder: /Production/Unix/

#vm_vlan_name: VM76123

vm_guest_id: rhel7_64Guest

#VMTemplate: redhat-template2020

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      1. Inside your /etc/ansible directory create the following

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For the purposes of this post we are just going to
create one group
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[All]

nicktestvm.nicktailor.com ansible_host=192.168.1.200

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Note: ansible_host=(ip) This is used when you want to override dns of the host and tell ansible. Do not resolve the dns this host only connect to this ip. You don’t need this here, however if your’re using ‘a’ static address to deploy vm’s initially and not using vmwre_tools to configure the network, and went with SSH after for configuration of the host. Then it will need to know which host to connect to setup the network. So I just like to have there in case I want to temporary tell ansible look here for this server.

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#vm_requirements

vm_ip: 192.168.1.86

vm_netmask: 255.255.255.0

vm_gateway: 192.168.1.1

vm_vlan_name: VM76123

VMTemplate: redhat-template2020

vm_folder: /Production/Unix

vm_state: poweredon

vm_connected: true

vm_datastore: vmfs-datastore1234

note: vm_dns_servers: this section is very important. This was the only way I could get the dns server to parse and update the /etc/resolv.conf properly. If you list them out individually as one lineers. It seems to be a bug and will simply empty out the file, which will leave your vm unable to resolve dns.

vm_dns_servers: [8.8.8.1, 8.8.8.2]

vm_dns_suffix: nicktailor.co.uk

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Setting Ansible Vault and Encrypted variables:

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ansible-vault encrypt_string –vault-id 1@vault.pass.txt ‘vcenter-password-here’ –name ‘vcenter_password‘

 

vcenter_password: !vault |

$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.2;AES256;1

31623638366337643437633065623538663565336232333863303763336364396438663032363364

3665376363663839306165663435356365643965343364310a313832393261363466393237666666

36666437626563386366653938383565663361646333333732336439356633616231653639626465

3130656134383365320a323032366238303366336562653865663130333963316237393839373830

65396139323739323266643961653766333633366638336435613933373966643561

Encryption successful

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vcenter_password: !vault |

$ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.2;AES256;1

31623638366337643437633065623538663565336232333863303763336364396438663032363364

3665376363663839306165663435356365643965343364310a313832393261363466393237666666

36666437626563386366653938383565663361646333333732336439356633616231653639626465

3130656134383365320a323032366238303366336562653865663130333963316237393839373830

65396139323739323266643961653766333633366638336435613933373966643561

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Deploy VM with ansible:

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Note: Important thing to remember when deploying linux machines from a template is that all your machines will have the same ‘Network’ UUID as the template machine. If you define these…. You will need to write some code to fix that up after the VM is deployed and powered up. Check  out the link below on how to do that.

http://www.nicktailor.com/?p=1177

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Special Note: if you attempt to deploy multiple hosts at the same time. This will deploy 5 clones in parallel at a time and not one by one. Which will reduce deployment time significantly. I didnt bother to see if i could override this….:)

Output log of successful automated ansible deploy:

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[root@nickansible]# ansible-playbook –i inventory/DEV/hosts standard_build.yml –ask-vault –limit ‘nicktestvm‘

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Vault password: (paste password here in your shell window)

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PLAY [all] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

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TASK [ansible-vmware-deploy : Validate Project Requirements] **********************************************************************************************************************************************

ok

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TASK [ansible-vmware-deploy : Login into vCenter and get cookies] *****************************************************************************************************************************************

ok: [nicktestvm]

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TASK [ansible-vmware-deploy : Create a VM] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************

changed: [nicktestvm]

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TASK [ansible-vmware-deploy : debug] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************

ok: [nicktestvm] => {

“vm_deploy.instance.hw_eth0.macaddress”: “00:40:51:53:11:a6”

}

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nicktestvm            : ok=4 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

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