Ansible with VMware – running remote commands from control node to managed node – Part 6
Kad In this blog I will be running remote commands from the ansible control box to my test ubtuno virtual machine. Screen shots below
May 2025
Ansible with VMware – Setup ansible on CentOS 10 and setup managed node – Part 5
A managed node is the remote machine you want to manage using your ansible box which is your control node. Every type of remote machine can be a managed node,…
Ansible with VMware – Create new virtual machine example– Part 4
create-vm.yml --- - name: create vm hosts: localhost become: false gather_facts: false tasks: - name: create folder community.vmware.vcenter_folder: hostname: 192.168.1.13 username: administrator@vsphere.local password: VMware1! validate_certs: no datacenter: dc1 folder_name: ansible…
Ansible with VMware – example api playbooks for vCenter – Part 3
You need to create two files first in your /etc/ansible/playbooks. login.yml and vcenter_vars.yml. This will allow to pass through information to the other .yml playbooks. Now here are some examples…
Ansible with VMware – Running some test Playbooks across vCenter – Part 2
Playbooks are automation blueprints, in YAML format that ansible uses to deploy and configure managed nodes. First we will create a file in /etc/ansible called ansible.cfg Next we will create…
Ansible with VMware – Initial setup of ansible “ubuntu” and pyvmomi – Part 1
The first thing about ansible is that it is agentless so makes it easy to automate tasks but the destination does requires ssh. Purpose of it is to automate repeatable…
vCenter 7 – Password has been already used. Choose another.passwd: Authentication token manipulation errorpasswd: password unchanged
You get the following error when trying to change the vCenter root password Password has been already used. Choose another.passwd: Authentication token manipulation errorpasswd: password unchanged