Ansible roles for vRealize Automation - VMware vCloud IaaS solution

Description

vRA-deploy-VM is a playbook that use ansible uri core module to request a VM from vRealize automation solution, the Vmware Cloud Automation Center (vCAC) This script is built to be run from a jenkins slave with a minmal installation in order to create an ephemeral deployement machine to deploy test and destroy the machines after testing.

HOW It WORKS

vRA-deploy-VM is a playbook that use ansible uri core module to request a VM from vRealize automation solution, the vmware cloud. This script can either be played form jenkins with ansible or in adhoc mode.

requierement : ** A valid vRA account able to create/destroy machines **

As you can see there is two main role file :

vRA-deploy-VM.yml :

This file is used to request a VM to vRealize Automation it will play a full mimed json request to ask ressource from vcloud and then get ip and hostname. Please store user and password in a separate yml vault file

HOW to use it

ansible-playbook vRA-deploy-VM.yml --ask-vault-pass 

Input :

VRA_HOST: {{ VRA_HOST}}
VRA_USER: {{ VRA_USER }}
VRA_PASS: {{ VRA_PASS }}
VRA_TENANT: {{ VRA_TENANT }}

Output :

VM_Destroy_id="{{ list.json.content[item].id }}" 
VM_name="{{ list.json.content[item].name }}"  
VM_IP="{{ list.json.content[item].resourceData }}

vRA-destroy-VM.yml :

HOW to use it

ansible-playbook vRA-destroy-VM.yml --ask-vault-pass 

Input :

VRA_HOST: {{ VRA_HOST}}
VRA_USER: {{ VRA_USER }}
VRA_PASS: {{ VRA_PASS }}
VRA_TENANT: {{ VRA_TENANT }}
{{  DESTROY_ID  }}

Output :

NONE