Ansible XenServer VM Playbook & Guide Posted

[Aaron Hunter]

Hello,

I just posted an in-depth guide to automating Xen VM creation and provisioning using Ansible at http://www.sharknet.us/blog/2013/12/13/how-to-create-xen-vms-using-ansible/ .  My guide shows how to create a VM from scratch while staying idempotent.

I continue to be very impressed with Ansible. It was challenging to fully automate this process and I made use of Ansible's advanced features to accomplish it. I would welcome any recommendations for improving it. If you know of another method for bootstrapping a new physical or virtual machine I'd like to hear it.

Thanks,
Aaron

[Pavel Sakun]

Hi Aaron.

The link above gives 404, corrent one is http://sharknet.us/2013/12/13/276/

Pavel.

[Aaron Hunter]

Thanks! I switched blog hosts and it messed up all my previous URLs.

I'm looking into putting it in Ansible Galaxy which is very cool. I just to need to experiment a bit with role parametrization to find a good design approach. I want it to provide good defaults yet still be fully configurable.

--Aaron