Ansible Virtualization Collection

Ansible Galaxy Collection: Virtualization:

• KVM
• VirtualBox
• VMware Workstation
• LXC/LXD
• Docker-CE
• Podman (with Buildah and Skopeo)
• Packer
• Vagrant
• VM Tools (VMware, VirtualBox and KVM)
• VMVagrant: setup a virtual machine for vagrant (user, ssh key, etc)

Tested on:

• CentOS 7
• RHEL 8
• Fedora 30
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Debian 10

Example

Install the role:

pip install --upgrade ansible
ansible-galaxy collection install crivetimihai.virtualization

playbook.yml example

- name: setup a virtualization environment
  hosts: all
  connection: local
  become: yes
  gather_facts: yes
  roles:
    - role: crivetimihai.virtualization.kvm
    - role: crivetimihai.virtualization.lxd
    - role: crivetimihai.virtualization.vmware
    - role: crivetimihai.virtualization.virtualbox
    - role: crivetimihai.virtualization.podman
    - role: crivetimihai.virtualization.docker
    - role: crivetimihai.virtualization.packer
    - role: crivetimihai.virtualization.vagrant

Running the playbook

Change to the python interpreter location on the target system.

ansible-playbook -i localhost, playbook.yml \
  -e "vmware_workstation_license_key='XXXXX-XX...'" \
  -e "ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3"

Running tests

molecule --debug create
molecule --debug converge
molecule login
molecule destroy

# Test one scenario:
molecule converge -s rhel-8

# Create a new role
molecule init role -r new_role -d docker

See also:

• Ansible Workstation Collection