Ansible Collection: vmware.vmware

This repo hosts the vmware.vmware Ansible Collection.

The collection includes the VMware modules and plugins to help the management of VMware infrastructure.

Ansible version compatibility

This collection has been tested against following Ansible versions: >=2.15.0.

Plugins and modules within a collection may be tested with only specific Ansible versions. A collection may contain metadata that identifies these versions. PEP440 is the schema used to describe the versions of Ansible.

Installation and Usage

Installing the Collection from Ansible Galaxy

Before using the VMware collection, you need to install the collection with the ansible-galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install vmware.vmware

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it via ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml using the format:

collections:
- name: vmware.vmware

Required Python libraries

VMware community collection depends on Python 3.9+ and on following third party libraries:

• Pyvmomi
• vSphere Automation SDK for Python

Installing required libraries and SDK

Installing collection does not install any required third party Python libraries or SDKs. You need to install the required Python libraries using following command:

pip install -r ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/vmware/vmware/requirements.txt

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

See LICENSE to see the full text.