hlangeveld/vagrant-vcenter

A Vagrant provider for VMware vCenter®

Vagrant provider for VMware vCenter®

Version 0.2.1 has been released!

Please note that this software is still Alpha/Beta quality and is not recommended for production usage.

We have a wide array of boxes available at Vagrant Cloud you can use them directly or you can roll your own as you please, make sure to install VMware tools in it.

Changes in version 0.2.1 include:

Fixes

• Hostname using linux prep needs to be hostname and domain not fqdn on both.
• Checking the power state at that spot can cause ruby exceptions to be thrown.

Thanks to Karl Pietri for this PR.

Install

Latest version can be easily installed by running the following command:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vcenter

Vagrant will download all the required gems during the installation process.

If you already have the plugin installed you can use:

vagrant plugin upgrade vagrant-vcenter

To perform an upgrade to the latest version.

After the install has completed a vagrant up --provider=vcenter will trigger the newly installed provider.

Configuration

Here's a sample Multi-VM Vagrantfile:

nodes = [
  { hostname: 'web-vm', box: 'gosddc/precise32' },
  { hostname: 'ssh-vm', box: 'gosddc/precise32' },
  { hostname: 'sql-vm', box: 'gosddc/precise32' },
  { hostname: 'lb-vm', box: 'gosddc/precise32' }
]

Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|

  config.vm.provider :vcenter do |vcenter|
    vcenter.hostname = 'my.vcenter.hostname'
    vcenter.username = 'myUsername'
    vcenter.password = 'myPassword'
    vcenter.folder_name = 'myFolderName'
    vcenter.datacenter_name = 'MyDatacenterName'
    vcenter.computer_name = 'MyHostOrCluster'
    vcenter.datastore_name = 'MyDatastore'
    vcenter.template_folder_name = 'My/Template/Folder/Path'
    vcenter.network_name = 'myNetworkName'
    # If you want to use linked clones, set this to true
    vcenter.linked_clones = true
  end

  # Go through nodes and configure each of them.j
  nodes.each do |node|
    config.vm.define node[:hostname] do |node_config|
      node_config.vm.box = node[:box]
      node_config.vm.hostname = node[:hostname]
      node_config.vm.box_url = node[:box_url]
    #   node_config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
    #     puppet.manifests_path = 'puppet/manifests'
    #     puppet.manifest_file = 'site.pp'
    #     puppet.module_path = 'puppet/modules'
    #     puppet.options = "--verbose --debug"
    #   end
    end
  end
end

Contribute

What is still missing:

• TEST SUITES! (working on that).
• Speed, the code is definitely not optimized.
• Thorough testing.
• Error checking is absymal.
• Some spaghetti code here and there.
• Bugs, bugs and BUGS!.

If you're a developer and want to lend us a hand, head over to our develop branch and send us PRs!