Luca Berton
Automation

Ansible for VMware by Examples

Luca Berton •
#ansible#vmware#automation#devops

🚀 Master VMware Automation with Ansible! 🚀

Are you tired of manually managing your VMware infrastructure? Have you tried AI-generated automation scripts, only to find yourself stuck debugging errors?

I’m Luca Berton, an Ansible Automation Expert with years of experience working with Ansible and VMware. I’ve helped over 15,000 students master automation, and now I’m excited to introduce my new book:

📖 “Ansible for VMware by Examples”

This book is packed with real-world examples, tested code, and best practices to help you automate VMware efficiently and reliably.

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🔥 Why Ansible for VMware?

Managing VMware manually can be complex and time-consuming. Ansible simplifies it, allowing you to:

✅ Create and manage VMs dynamically
✅ Automate snapshots, backups, and compliance logging
✅ Secure sensitive data using Ansible Vault
✅ Optimize storage and manage VMware datastores
✅ Perform live migrations with vMotion

📖 What’s Inside the Book?

Key Topics Covered:

🔹 Getting Started with Ansible – Learn how to set up inventories, write playbooks, and understand key concepts.
🔹 Dynamic Inventory for VMware – List and target your VMs dynamically.
🔹 Advanced Ansible Features – Loops, conditionals, handlers, and magic variables.
🔹 VMware Automation – Create, power on/off, and configure virtual machines automatically.
🔹 Troubleshooting & Optimization – Solve common VMware connectivity and Python library issues.
🔹 Live Migration & Storage Management – Perform vMotion live migrations and manage datastores seamlessly.

🎯 Bonus: All the battle-tested code is available in a GitHub repository so you can start automating right away!

📖 Table of Contents

  • What Is Ansible?
  • Ansible
  • Three Main Use Cases
  • Four Key Tenets of Ansible
  • Six Values of Ansible
  • Ansible History
  • Ansible, Ansible Tower, and the Ansible Automation Platform
  • Getting Started
  • Ansible Architecture
  • Connecting with Managed Nodes
  • Ansible Installation
  • Running Ad-Hoc Commands with Privilege Escalation on Ansible
  • Inventory
  • Playbook
  • Variables
  • Facts and Magic Variables
  • Vault
  • Conditional
  • Loop
  • Handler
  • Role
  • Ansible Galaxy
  • Collection
  • Ansible Plugins
  • Key Takeaways
  • Ansible Community vs ansible-core Packages
  • ansible-core
  • The Ansible Community Package
  • Additional Collections Installation
  • Installing the community.vmware Collection
  • Ansible Installation for Various OS:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Ubuntu
  • Fedora
  • CentOS
  • Windows
  • macOS
  • SUSE SLES
  • PIP
  • Amazon Linux
  • Debian
  • Key Takeaways
  • Configuring Ansible for VMware
  • The Ansible vmware.vmware_rest Collection
  • Python Virtual Environment Setup
  • Troubleshooting (pyVmomi, Unknown Error, Certificate Verification)
  • VM Operations:
  • Create VM
  • Deploy from Template
  • Start/Stop VM
  • Snapshot Management
  • Disk Operations
  • Host and Datastore Information
  • Inventory and Guest Tools
  • Live Migration with vMotion
  • Change Boot Device Order
  • Key Takeaways
  • Key Takeaways

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