I recently just went through a similar process. I ended up deploying a TFTP server using Ansible which included the Ubuntu Netboot PXE boot image to provision new VMs. Using this method along with some shell scripts to help along the way has worked out great for me. I will also be uploading more of the playbooks that go along with this solution. Below is a link to my github which is where I will be placing the playbooks. Right now the shell scripts are there if you want to take a look.
https://github.com/mrlesmithjr/Ansible <https://github.com/mrlesmithjr/Ansible> On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 4:07:53 AM UTC-5, Patel Parimal wrote: > > Hi, > I am newbie to Ansible. > > I have gone through the online documentation and examples for creating new > VM on Ansible Docs - vsphere_guest ( > http://docs.ansible.com/vsphere_guest_module.html). > > I want to automate VM creation and OS installation process using Ansible. > > Currently I have VMWare ESXi available which doesn't support VM cloning, > so I need to create a new VM every time from scratch and install OS(RHEL 6) > into it. > > Is there any way to provide kickstart file URL in Ansible Playbook (for > example, static HTTP URL like http://192.168.0.1/ks/ks.cfg) so after > newly built VM is powered on, OS will be installed into it ? > > Thanks and regards, > Parimal > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/7020a10f-d729-4e3d-ad04-e8f0c3f19067%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
