Create VM on VMWare and register on RHN

[Enzo]

Hi,

I'm a beginner on awx and ansible.

I have a template with RHEL7 on vmware and I trying to clone a vm and register on rhn.

My playbook create vm without issue and take all parameters from survey on awx, but I have a doubt how to register on RHN?

In my template there is already linux user ansible with ssh rsa public key in authorized_hosts, so my ansible can access without problems.

How to execute the task on new created host and not localhost?

---
- name: Create a VM from a template
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: Clone the template
    vmware_guest:
      hostname: '{{ vcenter_server }}'
      username: '{{ vcenter_user }}'
      password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
      validate_certs: False
      name: '{{
      template: Template_RHEL7
      datacenter: '{{ vcenter_datacenter }}'
      folder: /
      state: poweredon

      wait_for_ip_address: yes
  - name: Register RHN

    rhn_register:
       state: present
       username: joe_user
       password: somepass

Thank you for your suggestions.
Enzo

[Jonathan Lozada De La Matta]

you need to put add_host to it adds the vm created to the current inventory then do the RHN part. This blog has a good explanation 

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/creating-load-balanced-web-service-cloud-ansible

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[Enzo]

Thank you Jonathan for your suggestion.

Now I have this playbook:

---
- name: Create Linux VM
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: True

  tasks:
  - name: Install Linux server

    vmware_guest:
      hostname: '{{ vcenter_server }}'
      username: '{{ vcenter_user }}'
      password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'

      validate_certs: no
      datacenter: '{{ vcenter_datacenter }}'
      cluster: '{{ vcenter_cluster }}'
      name: '{{ vcenter_guest }}'
      template: Template_RHEL7
      state: poweredon
      folder: '/'
      disk:
      - size_gb: 35
        type: thin
        datastore: ds
        autoselect_datastore: yes
      networks:
      - name: '{{ network_connection }}'
        ip: '{{ ip_address }}'
        netmask: '{{ ip_netmask }}'
        gateway: '{{ ip_gateway }}'
        start_connected: yes
      customization:
        domain: '{{ dns_domain }}'
        dns_servers:
        - 192.168.0.100
      wait_for_ip_address: yes
    delegate_to: 127.0.0.1
    run_once: True

  - name: Add host in group
    add_host:
      hostname: '{{ vcenter_guest }}'
      groupname: createvm_temp
    with_items: '{{ vcenter_guest }}'

#  - name: Wait for ssh to come up
#    wait_for: host={{ ip_address }} port=22 delay=10 timeout=120
#    with_items: '{{ vcenter_guest }}'

  - name: Setting ip as instance fact
    set_fact: host={{ ip_address }}
    with_items: '{{ vcenter_guest }}'

  - name: Register to RHN and auto-subscribe to available content.

    hosts: createvm_temp

    gather_facts: True

    redhat_subscription:
      state: present
      username: user
      password: password
      auto_attach: true
    with_items: '{{ vcenter_guest }}'

I'm running with ansible version 2.6.2, I got 2 warnings

[WARNING]: Ignoring invalid attribute: gather_facts

[WARNING]: Ignoring invalid attribute: hosts

and an error

TASK [Register to RHN and auto-subscribe to available content.] **************** 11:39:47
failed: [localhost] (item=ansibletest) => {"changed": false, "item": "ansibletest", "msg": "Failed to find required executable subscription-manager in paths: /opt/awx/embedded/bin:/opt/awx/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin"}                    

Ansible is running on centos 7 where subscription-manager is not installed, while on target ansibletest RHEL7 is installed but ansible tell me no.

I think the issue is because the task is executed on localhost and not on new host so I can't change the host when run all other tasks.

Other suggestions?

Thank you

Enzo

[Jonathan Lozada De La Matta]

try https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_variables.html#turning-off-facts

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[Enzo]

I solved so:

---
- name: Create Linux VM
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local

  gather_facts: no

        - 192.168.1.100

      wait_for_ip_address: yes
    delegate_to: 127.0.0.1
    run_once: True

  - name: Add host in group
    add_host:
      hostname: '{{ vcenter_guest }}'

      groups: createvm_temp
      ansible_host: '{{ ip_address }}'
    with_items: '{{ vcenter_guest }}'

- name: Post create vm
  hosts: createvm_temp
  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

    - name: Register to RHN and auto-subscribe to available content.

      become: yes

      redhat_subscription:
        state: present
        username: user
        password: pass

        auto_attach: true

I hope is usefully also to others.