Create VMs on KVM with Ansible

So the Ansible virt module doesn’t have a clone option and the creation of guests is a little limited. Because of this we have to use the shell or command modules and try to make them idempotent. This is a simple example and the dictionary can be expanded to a lot more customization. There is a way to use libvirt as a dynamic inventory and set group and host vars on guests, but I’ll cover that in a different post....

October 4, 2017 · 2 min · 309 words · John Hooks