Ansible for VMware by Examples

Chapter 1: Ansible For Beginners With Examples

Chapter Goal: Description of the Ansible Technology and how to write and execute your first Ansible Playbook code.

No of pages: 5 0

Sub - Topics

1. What is Ansible

Getting Started
1. Inventory

1. Playbook

1. Variables, Fact and Magic Variables
2. Vault
3. Conditional and Loop
Handler
4. Role
5. Ansible Best Practices

Chapter 2: Install Ansible

Chapter Goal: How to install Ansible in the most common Operating System step by step

No of pages 20

Sub - Topics:

1. ansible community vs ansible-core packages
2. Ansible installation in RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
3. Ansible installation in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

1. Ansible installation in Fedora 36

Ansible installation in CentOS 9 Stream

Ansible installation in Windows

Ansible installation in SUSE SLES (Linux Enterprise Server) 15

Ansible installation with PIP

Ansible installation in RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9

1. Ansible installation in Amazon Linux 2 (AWS EC2)
2. Ansible installation in Debian 11

Chapter 3: Ansible For VMware

Chapter Goal: How to automate your VMware infrastructure using Ansible code and troubleshoot the most common error messages

No of pages: 70

Sub - Topics:

1. Configure Ansible For VMware

Configure a Python Virtual Environment for Ansible VMware

Ansible troubleshooting - VMware f ailed to Import PyVmomi
1. Ansible troubleshooting - VMware Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi

1. Ansible troubleshooting - VMware certificate verify failed connecting to vCenter or ESXi

1. Create a VMware virtual machine
2. Deploy a VMware virtual machine from a template

1. Start a VMware virtual machine

Stop a VMware virtual machine

Take a VMware virtual machine snapshot

Delete a VMware virtual machine snapshot

Add a new hard disk to VMware virtual machine

1. Expand a virtual disk in VMware virtual machine

1. Gather VMware Hosts information of a cluster

1. Get VMware virtual machine UUID

1. Ansible Dynamic Inventory For VMware

1. Get VMware vSphere Virtual Machine Running Host

1. Get VMware datastore status

1. Upload a file to the VMware datastore

1. Get VMware Guest Tools status

Upgrade VMwar