I’ve been excited for weeks now as I prepped for VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas and anticipating being able to talk more about leveraging Ansible to deploy and operate a VMware SDDC environment. As you can tell from my recent posts, I am heavily involved in automation using Ansible, both within my side projects and as a practicing architect at VMware. As an internal team, we are working hard to improve and enhance several of the upstream Ansible modules, and I hope to be able to share those externally in the future as they are contributed back.
In my spare time, I’ve been working the lab to provide a set of Ansible roles that anyone can leverage to configure ESXi hosts, deploy and configure a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), and deploy and configure NSX-v within their environments. I am happy to announce the initial release of these roles in the Virtual Elephant GitHub space.
The following roles have been published within the space and are operational:
Wherever possible, each role has been written to allow the creation, deletion or modification of said objects within the SDDC environment.
In addition to the roles themselves, there are published playbooks that execute the roles in a specific order, based on dependencies, to perform the actual deployment of the SDDC environment.
If you are looking to start leveraging Ansible to deploy and manage your VMware SDDC environments, these roles are a great starting point. Reach out to me over Twitter, or come find me this afternoon in the VMware {code} Theatre at 1:00PM.
Enjoy!