ansible-vmmanager

Description

An Ansible module for managing Virtual Machines on personal virtualisers - ie: VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox.

Example

An example playbook to provision a couple of VirtualBox VMs with bridged networking, set their hostname and install httpd...

- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:

    - name: provision instance
      vbox_instance: source_image=packer-virtualbox-base-centos7-1424513286 target_image={{ item }} state=running network_type=bridged
      register: instance_result
      with_items:
        - web01.localdomain
        - web02.localdomain

    - name: Add instance results to host group
      add_host: hostname={{ item.ansible_facts.ipaddress }} groupname=vbox_hosts hostname_to_set={{ item.item }}
      with_items: instance_result.results

- hosts: vbox_hosts
  remote_user: vagrant
  sudo: yes

  pre_tasks:
    - name: set hostname
      hostname: name={{ hostname_to_set }}

  tasks:
    - name: install httpd
      yum: name=httpd state=installed

Contact

Support

Installation

Simply copy fusion_instance.py and/or vbox_instance.py into (for example) ~/myansiblemodules and add that path to the ANSIBLE_LIBRARY environment variable.

TODO

• a general code tidy