Deploy a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine from a Template - Ansible module vmware_guest — Video Tutorial

How to Deploy a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine from a Template with Ansible? I'm going to show you a live Playbook and some simple Ansible code. I'm Luca Berton and welcome to today's episode of Ansible Pilot Ansible Deploy a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine from a Template - `community.vmware.vmware_guest` - Manages virtual machines in vCenter Let's talk about the Ansible module `vmware_guest`. The full name is `community.vmware.vmware_guest`, which means that is part of the collection of modules to interact with VMware, community-supported. It's a module pretty stable and out for years. It manages virtual machines in vCenter. Parameters The module `vmware_guest` has a very long list of parameters to customize all your needs to create a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine. Please refer to the manual for the full list. Links - [community.vmware.vmware_guest](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_guest_module.html) ## Playbook How to Deploy a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine from a Template with Ansible. I'm going to show you how to deploy a Virtual Machine named "myvm" from a template "mytemplate" without any customization. code - vm_deploy_template.yml ```yaml --- - name: deploy vm from template Playbook hosts: localhost become: false gather_facts: false collections: - community.vmware pre_tasks: - include_vars: vars.yml tasks: - name: create folder vcenter_folder: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}" datacenter_name: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}" folder_name: "{{ vcenter_destination_folder }}" folder_type: vm state: present - name: clone VM vmware_guest: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}" datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}" cluster: "{{ vcenter_cluster }}" name: "{{ vm_name }}" folder: "{{ vcenter_destination_folder }}" template: "{{ vm_template }}" ``` - vars.yml ```yaml --- vcenter_hostname: "vmware.example.com" vcenter_datacenter: "vmwaredatacenter" vcenter_validate_certs: false vcenter_username: "username@vsphere.local" vcenter_password: "MySecretPassword123" vm_name: "myvm" vcenter_destination_folder: "myvm" vm_state: "poweroff" vm_template: "mytemplate" ``` - inventory ```ini localhost ``` execution ```bash $ ansible-playbook -i inventory vm_deploy_template.yml PLAY [deploy vm from template Playbook] *************************************************************** TASK [include_vars] ******************************************************************************* ok: [localhost] TASK [create folder] ****************************************************************************** changed: [localhos