Ansible Role: sys_vm_guest

An Ansible Role to install VM Guest Packages.

Motivation

Virtualization is very common these days and often requires some special packages in the guest OS.

Description

This role installs vm guest packages.

• detect Virtualization (KVM, VMware)
• add proper packages

Requirements

Used Modules:

• Ansible Package Module
• Ansible debug Module
• Ansible include_vars Module

Installation

Install from Ansible Galaxy

ansible-galaxy install while_true_do.sys_vm_guest

Install from Github

git clone https://github.com/while-true-do/ansible-role-sys_vm_guest.git while_true_do.sys_vm_guest

Usage

Role Variables

---
# defaults file for while_true_do.sys_vm_guest

## Package Management
wtd_sys_vm_guest_package:
  - qemu-guest-agent
  - open-vm-tools
# State can be present|latest|absent
wtd_sys_vm_guest_package_state: "present"

Example Playbook

Running Ansible Roles can be done in a playbook.

Simple

---
- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: while_true_do.sys_vm_guest

Known Issues

1. RedHat Testing is currently not possible in public, due to limitations in subscriptions.
2. Some services and features cannot be tested properly, due to limitations in docker.

Testing

Most of the "generic" tests are located in the Test Library.

Ansible specific testing is done with Molecule.

Infrastructure testing is done with testinfra.

Automated testing is done with Travis CI.

Contribute

Thank you so much for considering to contribute. We are very happy, when somebody is joining the hard work. Please fell free to open Bugs, Feature Requests or Pull Requests after reading the Contribution Guideline.

See who has contributed already in the kudos.txt.

License

This work is licensed under a BSD-3-Clause License.

Contact

• Site https://while-true-do.io
• Twitter https://twitter.com/wtd_news
• Code https://github.com/while-true-do
• Mail hello@while-true-do.io
• IRC freenode, #while-true-do
• Telegram https://t.me/while_true_do