[ansible-project] Re: [ISSUE] Ansible for VMware, deploy vms and update them

2022-08-23 Thread TheReal MVP
Walter: Oh that would be the dream! Register the mac address with the DHCP server, then wait for the VM to pick up the ip. Paul: I was looking at terraform as well, but I haven't really searched how well it was all working together. Do you have any off-hand scripts I could follow and check out?

Re: [ansible-project] Re: [ISSUE] Ansible for VMware, deploy vms and update them

2022-08-23 Thread Paul Manno
Hello, Don't get me wrong, I love ansible, and I realize this is an ansible mailing group, but IMO Terraform is a better tool for this. I build a whole workflow around packer and ansible glued together with Python and AWX in the mix and it's really, really hard to orchestrate a lot of this stuff

[ansible-project] Re: [ISSUE] Ansible for VMware, deploy vms and update them

2022-08-23 Thread 'Walter Rowe' via Ansible Project
in our env we have an ansible tower workflow where we create the VM, register the results, then send the mac address of the new VM off to InfoBlox to create a new DHCP record. Once InfoBlox creates the DHCP record it sees the DHCP broadcasts from the VM and responds. This gives the VM all it ne