Configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible VMware - ansible collection community.vmware — Video Tutorial

How to configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible VMware? Using a Python Virtual Environment is a convenient way to maintain up-to-date the Python dependency of the Ansible collection community.vmware without interfere with your Linux system/ This initial configuration sometimes is a roadblock for some VMware users to start using Ansible. I'm Luca Berton and welcome in today's episode of Ansible Pilot. Links - [Ansible collection community.vmware](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/index.html) - [Python pyVmomi](https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi) - [VMware vSphere Automation SDK for Python](https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python) Playbook Configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible VMware: - pyVmomi - requests - VMware vSphere Automation SDK for Python How to Python Virtual Environment for Ansible VMware. I'm going to show you how to configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible VMware to successfully use the Ansible collection `community.vmware` of modules and plugins to manages various operations related to virtual machines in the given ESXi or vCenter server. Ansible VMware modules are written on top of `pyVmomi` Python SDK for the VMware vSphere API that allows user to manage ESX, ESXi, and vCenter infrastructure. Other useful libraries are `requests` and `VMware vSphere Automation SDK for Python` used for some additional features such as list tags in the Ansible Dynamic Inventory `vmware_vm_inventory` plugin. code ```bash $ python3.8 -m venv venv $ source venv/bin/activate (venv) $ pip3.8 install --upgrade pip (venv) $ pip3.8 install requests (venv) $ pip3.8 install pyvmomi (venv) $ pip3.8 install --upgrade git+https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python.git ``` execution ```bash [devops@demo ~]$ python3.8 -m venv venv [devops@demo ~]$ source venv/bin/activate (venv) [devops@demo ~]$ pip install -U pip Collecting pip Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/96/2f/caec18213f6a67852f6997fb0673ae08d2e93d1b81573edb93ba4ef06970/pip-22.1.2-py3-none-any.whl Installing collected packages: pip Found existing installation: pip 19.3.1 Uninstalling pip-19.3.1: Successfully uninstalled pip-19.3.1 Successfully installed pip-22.1.2 (venv) [devops@demo ~]$ pip install requests Collecting requests Using cached requests-2.28.0-py3-none-any.whl (62 kB) Collecting idna<4,>=2.5 Using cached idna-3.3-py3-none-any.whl (61 kB) Collecting urllib3<1.27,>=1.21.1 Using cached urllib3-1.26.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl (138 kB) Collecting charset-normalizer~=2.0.0 Using cached charset_normalizer-2.0.12-py3-none-any.whl (39 kB) Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17 Using cached certifi-2022.6.15-py3-none-any.whl (160 kB) Installing collected packages: urllib3, idna, charset-normalizer, certifi, requests Successfully installed certifi-2022.6.15 charset-normalizer-2.0.12 idna-3.3 requests-2.28.0 urllib3-1.26.9 (venv) [devops@demo ~]$ pip install pyvmomi Coll