On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:39:56AM -0700, Evgeny Vasilchenko wrote:
I'd like to share an idea for provisioning of VMware guest VM's with
Foreman.
The idea required programming new type of Foreman proxy - unfortunately, I
neither have time or enough skills for that.
*The goal:*
- Allow configuration of Linux (and maybe Windows) VM network interfaces
with VMWare VIX's API <https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/>
instead of DHCP
*Facts:*
- VMWare offers a free VM management API called *VIX*
- https://blogs.vmware.com/vix/2008/07/what-is-vix-and.html
- *VIX is an API that lets you programmatically control the products
that host VMware VMs, and control the VMs themselves.*
- it works with many VMWare products including vCenter
-
- VIX package can be installed on both
*Linux and Windows *
- VIX has a wrapper utility called *vmrun*
(https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/vix112_vmrun_command.pdf)
which offers a CLI for controlling VM's running - e.g. starting, stopping,
pausing, deleting, etc...
- vmrun can be installed on a *Foreman Smart-Proxy* (AKA Sat6 capsule)
*host* and
- run any command or script *INSIDE* of a guest VM running on a
vCenter computing resource - i
*.e. it can configure whatever, including network interfaces. *
- in order to run something inside of VM - vmrun only need to
know (beside of vCenter credentials of course)
- *path to .VMX file* (already known after VM provisioning)
- guest OS username (i.e. root, administrator) and password
- command line or script name to be executed
In fact VIX API and vmrun can do way more that this - I feel it simply must
be integrated into Foreman Proxy.
I've been using it for various VCenter related automation tasks and like
it's versatility and power.
Any ideas?
Would a VMware VIX backend to Remote Execution be feasable and useful?
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