RHEL VM creation from iso

[Alastair Rogers]

I am currently looking at utilising ansible for our VM creation and initial OS setup.

We have VMware vCenter hosting our VM’s and I am comfortable with VM creation with the ansible module vmware_guest. The difficulty I have is with taking the VM to an operational RHEL install. Booting from an ISO requires user input to manually install or providing a kickstart file. I would like to be handoff during the spin up of a new VM.

Can you suggest a way I can overcome this difficulty?

[George Shuklin]

kickstart is a fragile approach. Use diskimage-builder to build a perfect image for your needs.

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[Philippe Eveque]

we do use kickstart and network boot (cobbler served) to install what we call OS profile

al unattended

2017-11-03 12:15 GMT+01:00 George Shuklin <george....@gmail.com>:

kickstart is a fragile approach. Use diskimage-builder to build a perfect image for your needs.

On 03/11/17 12:05, Alastair Rogers wrote:

I am currently looking at utilising ansible for our VM creation and initial OS setup.

We have VMware vCenter hosting our VM’s and I am comfortable with VM creation with the ansible module vmware_guest. The difficulty I have is with taking the VM to an operational RHEL install. Booting from an ISO requires user input to manually install or providing a kickstart file. I would like to be handoff during the spin up of a new VM.

Can you suggest a way I can overcome this difficulty?

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