vCD Ansible Modules

These Ansible Modules help to manage Day 0 operations on VMware vCloud Director. Following are the available modules based on Ansible which helps to automate the workflow onto VMware vCloud Director Platform,

1. vcd_catalog
2. vcd_catalog_item
3. vcd_disk
4. vcd_external_network
5. vcd_org
6. vcd_org_vdc
7. vcd_roles
8. vcd_user
9. vcd_vapp
10. vcd_vapp_network
11. vcd_vapp_vm
12. vcd_vapp_vm_disk
13. vcd_vapp_vm_nic
14. vcd_vapp_vm_snapshot
15. vcd_vdc_gateway
16. vcd_gateway_services
17. vcd_vdc_network

Environment Settings

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1. Login

 - name: vCloudDirectorAnsible
   hosts: localhost
   environment:
	env_user: VCD_USER_NAME
	env_password: VCD_USER_PASSWORD
	env_host: VCD_URL            ## VCD Instance URL
	env_org: VCD_ORG             ## VCD ORG to login
	env_api_version: PYVCLOUD_API_VERSION
	env_verify_ssl_certs: false

VCD Ansible Modules prefer following two ways to set login variables for vCloud Director instance.

1. Environment Variables - The end user can set login variables in the environment as shown above. Once they are set, modules will use these variables for all the subsequent resource operations automatically.
2. Local Variables - The end user can set login variables for specific module(s) as local variables. This approach gives more freedom to the end user to execute specific module(s) on specific vCloud Director instance(s).



By default, the priority will be given to Local Variables than Environment Variables.