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Building Out a VMware Deployment

Now that we know how to launch networking and services in AWS, we will discuss deploying a similar setup in a VMware environment and talk through the core VMware modules.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • An introduction to VMware
  • The VMware REST modules

Technical requirements

This chapter will discuss various components of the VMware family of products and how you can interact with them using Ansible. While there will be example playbook tasks in this chapter, they may need to be more easily transferable to your installation. Because of this, it’s not recommended that you use any examples in this chapter without first reviewing the complete documentation.

An introduction to VMware

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