Posts made by hcoles

@olivierlambert Well, Thanks for the info, we'll have to look into that.
Terraform can use templates as well right? So, if we don't use packer for VMs we wouldn't necessarily have to in the future?

@olivierlambert Have there been any updates along these lines?

@olivierlambert That module/plugin looks to only be for inventory, I need to be able to deploy VMs, decom, modify, etc. Did I miss something in the docs?

I'm not a developer, and I need to find a way to use Ansible to automate VM setup and take down. We're currently in POC mode for XCP, but we're finding it coming up short in Automation (or docs about it).

The xenserver one is documented to be tested with XCP, and was I was directed to when searching for what I need.

@hcoles I did find that in the first set of docs it points to xenserver or XCP host.

That said, how would I setup an account to be used for the purpose so that we're not using "root" as that would flag on audits.

The Ansible docs from here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/xenserver_guest_module.html
Seem to indicate the host is the XCP server, not XO, and differ from the blog I found here:
https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/virtops3-ansible-with-xen-orchestra/ (which appears to have quit a bit of age on it now)..

The problem is we're trying to POC Ansible automation in deploying and Decommissioning VMs but we're having trouble authenticating. The question is: For Ansible, does it use a connection directly to the Master Hypervisor, (XCP Server) or to XO?

It appears the XENAPI is more complete as well, but looks like connection to the XCP server is necessary for that.

Any removal of the fog on my end would be appreciated, as I don't profess to be an API or Ansible expert.