Great news, this is a great add-on to the Tech Preview of Ansible Automation Platform (formerly Ansible Tower) for RHEL on Z. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/daniel-jast1/2023/06/27/ansible-on-ibm-z-tech-preview
regards, Phil " virtus in medio stat " "Perfect is the enemy of the Good" On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 4:19 PM Robert J Brenneman <bren...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings All, > > I've just gotten permission from the powers that be to release some tools > I've been using internally on my team for a couple months now. These are a > set of Ansible modules that you can use to create/destroy and modify > virtual machines on z/VM via SMAPI. > > Yes - I am aware of everyones feelings regarding SMAPI. No there were not > any better alternatives to do what I needed to do easily within the time I > had to do it. > > > The good news is though: it actually works! Using these modules and > playbooks you can spawn an entire openshift cluster ( some assembly > required, I'm not providing a load balancer, dns updates, bastion host, > firewall, you're all clever people I dont have to hold your hands on all > that ) > > The base repo is at https://github.com/IBM/zvm_ansible > > thats where all the ansible playbook samples are with a sample inventory > file. The test_ examples show cases of creating, modifying, and deleting > virtual machines, as well as adding, cloning, and removing minidisks. > > You will also need the actual modules from > https://github.com/IBM/zvm_ansible_collection > > You'll have to pull down the module code and build a galaxy tarball and > install it on your machine you're running the ansible playbooks from - > theres instructions in the readme. > > At the moment its just me maintaining these. They work for my usecases, and > when you find horrible bugs ( you will ) open an issue and I will do my > best. This aint my day job, but I'm working to assemble a crack team to > make it their day jobs. The ultimate goal is to eventually get the modules > accepted into the Red Hat Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z ( > https://github.com/ansible-collections/ibm_zos_core ), so it will become > supported by both IBM and RH. > > Thats not gonna happen this week though - so for now, please have a peek > and let me know if you think this will be useful to you and yours. > > Happy Ansibiling! > > -- > Jay Brenneman > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
