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

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L. BertonAnsible for VMware by Exampleshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8879-5_3

3. Ansible for VMware

Luca Berton¹  

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Czechia, Czech Republic

 

By now, you probably understand that Ansible is a phenomenal tool for automating system administrator tasks. In this chapter, the key focus is on the VMware infrastructure. I’m going to share with you some day-to-day use cases to save time and reduce errors. In the following pages, you’re going to learn about the most important Ansible modules and plugins to automate your VMware infrastructure. There is code to specifically interact with VMware data centers, clusters, host systems, and virtual machines. By the end ...