Role Name

A brief description of the role goes here.

Ansible role to integrate invoke VRA provisioning / other XAAS blueprints using Ansible.

Requirements

All modules of this role require python2.7 environment::

sudo pip install ansible
sudo pip install json
sudo pip install requests
sudo pip install ast
sudo pip install time
sudo pip install collections

Installation

The Ansible role can be installed directly from Ansible Galaxy by running::

 ansible-galaxy install eugene_ky_wong.vra_ansible --force 

If the ansible-galaxy command-line tool is not available (usually shipped with Ansible), or you prefer to download the role package directly, navigate to the Ansible Galaxy role page <https://galaxy.ansible.com/eugene_ky_wong/vra_ansible> and hit "Download".

Alternately, you can directly navigate to our GitHub repository <https://galaxy.ansible.com/eugene_ky_wong/vra_ansible>_.

Role Variables

VRA_server:
    description:
        - VRA server hostname or IP Address to request from
    required: true
user:
    description:
    - Username of manamgement account, eg. admin
    required: true
user_pass:
    description:
        - Password of management account, eg. pass
    required: true
VRA_tenant:
    description:
        - tenant of VRA which the user is requesting from
    required: true
catalog_item:
    description:
        - Service Catalog Item which is being requested
    required: true (provide arbituary value if display_template_only is true)
provisioning_options:
    description:
        - provisioning options if catalog item is a VM provision request
    required: false
options_file:   ## not ready yet
    description:
         - file containing catalog item request template
    required: false
verify:
    description:
        - SSL Verify - False as default
    required: false
catalog_timeout:
    description
        - Timeout to fulfil request (in numbers of 10s blocks)
    required: false (default: 180 ~= 30 mins)
display_template_only:
    description:
        - Display Service Catalog Template - False as default
    required: false
display_entitled_items_only:
    description:
        - Display Entitled Items - False as default
    required: false

Dependencies

Python Modules:

ansible json requests ast time collections

Example Playbook

Provision VM with customization

• name: Provision VM with 1 vCPU, 4GB memory and HDD of 100GB and 200GB specification vra_request: user: username user_pass: "pass" VRA_server: vra.server.mgmt catalog_item: Provision VM (Reference) provisioning_options: - cpu: 1 - memory: 4096 - disks: # This must match template - putting 0 will not make any changes to template. - 100 - 200 register: vra_request_result

License

BSD

Author Information

morphyme@gmail.com https://github.com/eugene-ky-wong/vra-ansible