Ansible for Vmware by Examples: A Step-By-Step Guide to Automating Your Vmware Infrastructure

Learn to use the Ansible open source IT automation tool to automate your VMware infrastructure. This book contains all of the obvious and not-so-obvious best practices of Ansible automation. Each lesson summarizes a specific use case for the modern VMware infrastructure and is focused on a single module from the most important parameter, including live demo of code and real-life usage.

You'll configure the Ansible Controller to interact with VMware infrastructure using the "community.VMware" Ansible documentation collection and the appropriate Python libraries. Next, learn how to automate the creation of a virtual machine manually and from a template, start and stop using the shutdown and forced-power off a Virtual Machine, take and delete and snapshot, add a new hard disk and expand a currently attached hard disk, as well as gather information for data centers, clusters, host systems, and virtual machines.

By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed in efficiently maintaining a VMware infrastructure with Ansible Automation. You'll also be able to save time and reduce manual errors using simple human-readable automation technology.

What You'll Learn

• Automate your VMware infrastructure using Ansible code
• Install Ansible in operating systems such as RedHat, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.
• Write and execute your first Ansible Playbook code
• Troubleshoot the most common error messages

Who This Book Is For

IT professionals of every industry who would like a jargon-free understanding of Ansible technology, including VMware, Linux, and Windows Systems Administrators, DevOps professionals, thought leaders, and infrastructure-as-code enthusiasts.

學習使用Ansible開源IT自動化工具來自動化您的VMware基礎架構。本書包含了Ansible自動化的明顯和不太明顯的最佳實踐。每個課程都總結了現代VMware基礎架構的特定用例，並專注於單個模塊的最重要參數，包括代碼的實時演示和實際使用。

您將配置Ansible Controller以使用“community.VMware”Ansible文檔集和適當的Python庫與VMware基礎架構進行交互。接下來，學習如何手動和從模板自動創建虛擬機器，使用關機和強制關機虛擬機器，拍攝和刪除快照，添加新硬盤和擴展當前連接的硬盤，以及收集有關數據中心、集群、主機系統和虛擬機器的信息。

通過閱讀本書，您將精通使用Ansible自動化高效維護VMware基礎架構。您還將能夠使用簡單易讀的自動化技術節省時間並減少手動錯誤。

您將學到什麼：

- 使用Ansible代碼自動化您的VMware基礎架構
- 在RedHat、Ubuntu、Fedora等操作系統中安裝Ansible
- 編寫並執行您的第一個Ansible Playbook代碼
- 解決最常見的錯誤消息

本書適合對Ansible技術（包括VMware、Linux和Windows系統管理員）、DevOps專業人員、思想領袖和基礎架構即代碼愛好者有興趣的各行業的IT專業人員。

Luca Berton is an Ansible Automation Engineer of Red Hat, based in Brno - Czech Republic. With more than 15 years of experience as a System Administrator, he has strong expertise in Infrastructure Hardening and Automation. Enthusiast of the Open Source supports the community sharing his knowledge in different events of public access. Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Fedora of course.

Luca Berton 是一位來自捷克布爾諾的紅帽公司 Ansible 自動化工程師。作為一名擁有超過 15 年系統管理員經驗的專家，他在基礎設施強化和自動化方面具有豐富的專業知識。作為一位開源愛好者，他通過參與不同的公開活動來分享自己的知識。他天生就是個技術狂熱者，選擇了 Linux，當然也選擇了 Fedora。