You're reading from Ansible for Real-Life Automation A complete Ansible handbook filled with practical IT automation use cases

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803235417

Length 480 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Gineesh Madapparambath

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Using Ansible as Your Automation Tool

2. Chapter 1: Ansible Automation – Introduction FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Starting with Simple Automation

4. Chapter 3: Automating Your Daily Jobs

5. Chapter 4: Exploring Collaboration in Automation Development

6. Part 2: Finding Use Cases and Integrations

7. Chapter 5: Expanding Your Automation Landscape

8. Chapter 6: Automating Microsoft Windows and Network Devices

9. Chapter 7: Managing Your Virtualization and Cloud Platforms

10. Chapter 8: Helping the Database Team with Automation

11. Chapter 9: Implementing Automation in a DevOps Workflow

12. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Using Ansible

13. Chapter 11: Managing Kubernetes Using Ansible

14. Chapter 12: Integrating Ansible with Your Tools

15. Chapter 13: Using Ansible for Secret Management

16. Part 3: Managing Your Automation Development Flow with Best Practices

17. Chapter 14: Keeping Automation Simple and Efficient

18. Chapter 15: Automating Non-Standard Platforms and Operations

19. Chapter 16: Ansible Automation Best Practices for Production

20. Index

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Automating VMware vSphere resources using Ansible

We will start with some simple automation use cases for VMware, such as provisioning of virtual machines, managing high availability (HA), network creation, and managing snapshots. The Ansible VMware collection (community.vmware) contains around 150 modules and other plugins:

Figure 7.6 – Ansible VMware collection by the community

The community.vmware collection relies on the pyvmomi and vSphere Automation SDK for Python libraries. Hence, to use the community.vmware collection, you need to install appropriate packages for Ansible to use it.

VMware has already introduced the vSphere REST API for vSphere 6.0 and later. A new Ansible collection was introduced (vmware.vmware_rest) to manage the operations using a REST API instead of Python libraries and SDKs. vmware.vmware_rest contains around 130 modules and other plugins:

Figure 7.7 – Ansible VMware REST API collection by...