Ansible for VMware By 20+ Examples

Name: Ansible for VMware By 20+ Examples
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Learn Ansible with some real-life examples of how to use the most common modules and Ansible Playbook

Created byLuca Berton

Last updated 4/2023

English

What you'll learn

Ansible in real life use cases
Ansible code by modules
Ansible code specific for VMware Professional
Ansible For VMware

Course content

4 sections • 22 lectures • 3h 19m total length

Introduction3:15
Ansible Ad-Hoc command - ansible command8:21
How to use the ping module, execute a command and retrieve the Ansible Facts from a target node via the ansible command line.
Ansible terminology - What is an Ansible Playbook?16:20
A step-by-step guide inside the Ansible Playbook anatomy.
Ansible terminology - What is an Ansible Vault?4:12
How to store variables and files in an encrypted way using the ansible-vault command line utility.

Configure Ansible for VMware - ansible collection community.vmware13:23
How to configure Ansible to interact with VMware infrastructure - datacenter, cluster, host system, and virtual machine - python PyVmomi, and collection community.vmware and vmware_guest_info Hello World demo.
Configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible VMware - ansible collection c6:35
How to configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible VMware community.vmware Ansible collection to use the latest releases of Python 3.8, pyVmomi, requests, and VMware vSphere Automation SDK for Python libraries.
Create a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine — Ansible module vmware_guest15:14
How to automate the creation of a virtual machine guest with 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, and 10 GB storage thin-provisioned using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest module.
Deploy a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine from a Template - Ansible module vmware_11:22
How to automate the deployment of a virtual machine guest from “mytemplate” template using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest module.
Start a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine - Ansible module vmware_guest_powerstate8:37
How to automate the change of power state from Powered Off to Powered On of the virtual machine guest “myvm” using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_powerstate module.
Stop a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine - Ansible module vmware_guest_powerstate10:47
How to automate the gracefully use guest shutdown and forcefully power off to change the power state from Powered On to Powered Off of the virtual machine guest “myvm” using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_powerstate module.
Take a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot - Ansible module vmware_guest_snapshot9:01
How to automate taking snapshots named “Ansible Managed Snapshot” to a VMware Virtual Machine “myvm” Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_snapshot module.
Delete a VMware Virtual Machine Snapshot — Ansible module vmware_guest_snapshot8:24
How to automate the delete of snapshot named “Ansible Managed Snapshot” in a VMware Virtual Machine “myvm” Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_snapshot module.
Add a New Hard Disk to VMware vSphere Virtual Machine - Ansible module vmware_gu11:36
How to automate the addition of a 1GB size Hard Disk to VMware Virtual Machine guest named “myvm” using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_disk module.
Expand a Virtual Disk in VMware vSphere Virtual Machine - Ansible module vmware_11:30
How to automate the expansion from 1GB to 2GB size Virtual Disk connected to VMware Virtual Machine guest named “myvm” using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_disk module.
Ansible Dynamic Inventory For VMware — ansible Ansible community.vmware.vmware_v8:49
How to list all the virtual machines in your VMware Infrastructure and use it as an Ansible inventory.
Gather Info about all VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts in a given Cluster - Ansible module8:58
How to automate the gathering of advanced configuration information for all the VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts inside the “production” cluster using Ansible Playbook and vmware_host_config_info module.
Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine UUID — Ansible module vmware_guest_info9:06
How to automate the gathering of UUID of a specific “myvm” VMware vSphere Virtual Machine using Ansible Playbook and vmware_guest_info module.

Ansible troubleshooting - VMware Failed to Import PyVmomi5:27
Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Failed to import the required Python library (PyVmomi)” to find the root cause, install the required library using PIP, and successfully run our Ansible For VMware Playbook code.
Ansible troubleshooting - VMware Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ES11:15
Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi API, [Errno -2] Name or service not known” to find the root cause, misspelled hostname in your Ansible Playbook, a connection problem connecting eventually using a secure VPN connection and successfully run our Ansible For VMware Playbook code.
Ansible troubleshooting - VMware certificate verify failed connecting to vCenter9:56
Let’s troubleshoot together the Ansible fatal error “Unable to connect to vCenter or ESXi API [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:897)” to find the root cause, connection problem connecting, and successfully run our Ansible For VMware Playbook code.
Ansible troubleshooting - Failed to connect to the host via ssh host localhost p5:41
How to solve the error connection failed fatal error when connecting via ssh host localhost port 22 when testing your code on your local machine.

Requirements

Ansible basic knowledge

Description

Learn the Ansible automation technology with some real-life examples.

Every successful IT department needs automation for bare metal servers, virtual machines, cloud, containers, and edge computing. Automate your IT journey with Ansible automation technology.

I'm going to teach you, example by example, how to accomplish the most common IT Professional tasks to automate your VMware Infrastructure Tasks.

Each of the 20+ lessons summarizes a specific use case for the Modern VMware Infrastructure. Each class is focused on a module from the most crucial parameter with some live demo of code and real-life usage. Each code is battle-proved in real life. Console interaction and verification are included in every video.

How to configure Ansible to interact with VMware infrastructure - data center, cluster, host system, and virtual machine. Using Ansible, you could automate creating, updating, and gathering information for data centers, groups, host systems, virtual machines, and many more use cases.

Mundane activities like manual virtual machine creation are used most with Ansible For VMware. Each example uses the secure connection protocol to guarantee sensible data are encrypted and reserved.

Maintain your VMware infrastructure network as efficiently as possible with Ansible Automation, the simple human-readable automation technology.

Are you ready to automate your day with Ansible?

Who this course is for:

VMware Engineer
System Administrator
IT Professional
Cloud Engineer
DevOps

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 32min

Ansible For VMware13 lectures • 2hr 13min

Troubleshooting4 lectures • 32min

Thank you1 lecture • 2min

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