Nklya/vcd-examples

Control VMware vCloud Director (VCD) with Terraform and Ansible examples.

Control VMware vCloud Director (VCD) with Terraform and Ansible examples.

Content

• Terraform - terraform example
• Ansible - ansible example

How to use

Terraform:

• Copy terraform.tfvars.example to terraform.tfvars
• Change variables to your own
• terraform init/terraform plan/terraform apply

Ansible:

• Change variables in vcloud.yml
• Run ansible-playbook vcloud.yml

Problems

Ansible:

• Not supported for a long time
• Cannot config network at all, especially for static ip
• Often fail with timeout when start

Terraform:

• Not supported many options, like resize disks, multiple disks, networks, etc. https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-vcd/issues/9

Links

• Terraform provider: https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-vcd
• Terraform documentation: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/vcd/index.html
• Terraform example: http://robcoward.blogspot.ru/2016/03/vcloud-director-and-terraform.html
• Ansible vca_vapp documentation: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/vca_vapp_module.html