VM Customization specifications walk-through and setup
Kad The VM Customization specification is good when you’re deploying a new vm from template you can use a custom options to configure your vm. VM customization specification can be used…
Updating virtual machine templates in vCenter
High-Level Steps: Convert the template to a Virtual machine Snapshot virtual machine for safe restore Power on the Virtual machine Update VMware Tools, windows patches or anything else you need…
Ansible with VMware – Getting started with AWX gui – Part 22
AWX provides a web user interface to run playbooks and api’s and built on top ansible. Below guide is the initial setup after been deployed and connecting to vcenter, please…
Red Hat 10 walk-though
Boot from ISO and push enter on install Select English and English australia Click installation destination Click done Select root account Select enable root account and put in password Click…
Ansible with VMware – AWX injecting a username and password when running a playbook – vm from template – Part 21
I don’t want my password in clear text in playbooks so this how to encrypt the password in AWX and injecting into the playbook. AWX is similar to ansible tower…
Install rhel 8, install ansible, initial config and first playbook
Boot from red hat iso and select install Select English and English Australia Select installation destination Select done Select root password Type password Click done twice Select network and host…
Install rundeck on CentOS Stream 8
You can use Rundeck to execute workflows across your existing automation products like Ansible, Puppet, API script etc..Rundeck is free open source software and it has GUI you can use…
Ansible with VMware – templates – j2 for Jinja2 – Part 20
I will be creating a template from the sshd_config file, basically a copy of it that will be used to deploy to other manage nodes.Just remember different operating systems may…
Ansible with VMware – host variables and handler – Part 19
Host variables can be used to manage host at a another level by defining the variable or a name to define what you want it to do. Here I will…
Ansible with VMware – Using Roles to organize your playbooks runs and tasks– Part 18
Roles is about organizing your playbooks into a more organized look and feel. Instead of having one playbook for everything you can break it up.The groups in my inventory.ini file…