Ansible Role: Clone Template VM

Clones a template VM from a backup NFS mount to local VCSA.

Requirements

A valid VMware virtual machine template hosted on a NFS share.

Role Variables

The following vars are defined in vars/main.yml

# Vault credentials
vcenter_username: "{{ vault_vcenter_username }}"
vcenter_password: "{{ vault_vcenter_password }}"

The following vars are defined in defaults/main.yml

# vCenter variables
vcenter_datacenter: "SC0"
vcenter_cluster: "AppFactory"
vcenter_hostname: "devvcsa.tme.nebulon.com"

# Folder to register the VM into
vcenter_vm_folder: "Kubernetes"

# Details on NFS mount holding backup of the VM template
nfs_backup_name: backup
vm_backup_template_name: "ubuntu20.04.4"

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

# ===========================================================================
# Clone template VM to VCSA
# ===========================================================================
- name: Clone template VM to VCSA
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false
  become: false
  module_defaults:
    group/vmware:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    validate_certs: false

  vars_files:
    # Ansible vault with all required passwords
    - "../../credentials.yml"

  roles:
    - jedimt.clone_template

License

MIT

Author Information

Aaron Patten aaronpatten@gmail.com