Deploy VM to vCenter with Ansible

2017-03-21 15:19:51

ready work

  • install ansible
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    # yum install epel-release -y
    # yum install python2-pip -y
    # pip install pysphere
    # yum install ansible -y
    [root@localhost ~]# ansible --version
    ansible 2.2.1.0

ansible config

  • create our inventory list

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    [root@localhost vm-playbook]# cat create_hosts 
    [dev-vms]
    ans-dev[127:128] disk='50' datastore='datastore1' network='VM Network' memory='256' cpucount='2' osid='centos64Guest'

    ans-dev[127:128]= -  actual VM names that we will be creating
    disk= — is the size in GB to create for each VM
    datastore= — name of the datastore to create the VMs on
    network= — name of network (portgroup) to place the VMs on
    memory= — the amount of memory in MB to allocate to the VMs
    cpucount= — the number of vCPU’s to allocate to the VMs
    osid= — the OS Identifier to specify for the OS type…. reference this guide for OSID’s

  • create the actual ansible playbook to run to create the VMs

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    [root@localhost vm-playbook]# cat create_vms.yml 
    ---
    - hosts: all
      gather_facts: false
      connection: local
      user: root
      sudo: false
      serial: 1

      vars_prompt:
        - name: "vcenter_hostname"
          prompt: "Enter vcenter hostname"
          private: no
          default: "vcsa"
        - name: "vcenter_user"
          prompt: "Enter vcenter username"
          private: no
        - name: "vcenter_pass"
          prompt: "Enter vcenter password"
          private: yes

      vars:
        datacenter: 'whistle'
        esxi_host: '192.168.100.120'
        notes: 'Created by Ansible'

      tasks:
        - vsphere_guest:
            vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
            username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
            password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"
            guest: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
            state: present
            vm_extra_config:
              notes: "{{ notes }}"
              vcpu.hotadd: yes
              mem.hotadd:  yes
              #folder: ansible_test
            vm_disk:
              disk1:
                size_gb: "{{ disk }}"
                type: thin
                datastore: "{{ datastore }}"
                # VMs can be put into folders. The value given here is either the full path
                # to the folder (e.g. production/customerA/lamp) or just the last component
                # of the path (e.g. lamp):
                #folder: production/customerA/lamp
            vm_nic:
              nic1:
                type: e1000
                network: "{{ network }}"
                network_type: standard
            vm_hardware:
              memory_mb: "{{ memory }}"
              num_cpus: "{{ cpucount }}"
              osid: "{{ osid }}"
              scsi: paravirtual
              vm_cdrom:
                    type: "iso"
                    iso_path: "datastore1/iso/CentOS-Basic7.3-01071715.iso"
            esxi:
              datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}"
              hostname: "{{ esxi_host }}"

  • now ready to run your playbook

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    [root@localhost vm-playbook]# ansible-playbook -i create_hosts create_vms.yml 
    SSH password: 
    [DEPRECATION WARNING]: Instead of sudo/sudo_user, use become/become_user and make sure become_method is 'sudo' (default).
    This feature will be removed in a future release. Deprecation 
    warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
    Enter vcenter hostname [vcsa]: 192.168.100.120
    Enter vcenter username: administrator
    Enter vcenter password: 

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

    TASK [vsphere_guest] ***********************************************************
    changed: [ans-dev127]

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

    TASK [vsphere_guest] ***********************************************************
    changed: [ans-dev128]

    PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
    ans-dev127                 : ok=1    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0   
    ans-dev128                 : ok=1    changed=1    unreachable=0    failed=0

ref

vsphere_guest - Create/delete/manage a guest VM through VMware vSphere
Creating vSphere VM’s using Ansible
Create multiple VMware guests with vsphere_guest module
Managing VMware vSphere guests with Ansible Tower

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