First post has been updated with new info. Another module has been merged upstream. Also some bugs were fixed.

@jthompson333 No problem. I'm following both forums so I'll try to respond same day.

@desnudopenguino Thanks .

I've updated the first post with some more info and clarified some confusing stuff.

@Ruskofff said in Ansible and XCP-ng:

I have a question about your module "xenserver_guest". Is it able to modify settings of the VM ? My main interest will be to mount the guest-tools.iso file to the VM. It's easy with the xe cli but I can't test it now that why I'm asking this.

Of course. Check out "cdrom" module parameter in the docs.

@Ruskofff I've updated the thread with new info regarding my modules.

The biggest advantage to using the modules instead of using xe tool or calling XAPI methods is that modules follow Ansible's idempotency principle. So you can run your Ansible playbooks multiple times without worrying that Ansible will do anything more times than expected.

@Ruskofff said in Ansible and XCP-ng:

Edit : I found the Ansible module you talking about @cheese (with the other topic talking about Ansible on XenServer). I could start from this point for the deployment of VM yes. Seems good for me !

This is the thread:

https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/159/deploy-vms-using-ansible

I'm the author of the module. The thread is a little outdated but I will update it ASAP. Feel free to ask me anything regarding the module.

@BitSprocket Hi. Thanks for stopping by. Info in the first post is a little outdated. I'll update it soon. The main thing is that my Ansible module for deployment of VMs is now merged in upstream Ansible so you should just get development version of Ansible to get access to my module. Feel free to ask me anything here. I'll be glad to help you get it up and running.

UPDATE: I've updated the first post with fresh info.

Hi everyone. For anyone interested in testing, GitHub repo is now updated with latest commit that includes fixes for a number of bugs including a bug that effectively prevented deployment of new VMs. Also, the module is now based on the latest Ansible 2.8 devel code base.

As always, any testing feedback would be very much appreciated, good or bad.

Thanks stormi. Still no testers thou. I found one critical bug that effectively prevents deployment . Reconfiguration of existing VMs works as expected . I have prepared a commit to fix a bunch of bugs I found in the mean time but I haven't pushed it to GitHub repo yet. To lazy I guess . If someone is eager to test, I'll push it right away.