Ansible And Vmware

Do you know that you can manage your VMWARE virtual infrastructure with ansible. If you are a devops admin you can also use vRealize Orchestrator to provision test, product or beta stage servers for your developers. But if you do not need such an enterprise solution you also use Ansible to manage your vMWare infrastructure. As stated in Ansible web page you can use ansible for

• Managing vSphere datacenters, clusters, hosts and guests
• VM template and snapshot management
• vSwitches, DNS settings, firewall rules and NAT gateway rules 

You can find the modules for vmware in the following link.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_cloud_modules.html#vmware

To be able to run vm modules you have the install the following python libraries.

pysphere
PyVmomi