vmware_tasks

This module contains tasks for a PoC showing Relay+PE capabilities in managing VMWare-backed infrastructure.

PoC setup

Install newest Powershell

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/8/prod.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft.repo
yum install -y powershell

Install PowerCLI
```
pwsh
Install-Module VMware.PowerCLI
```
Set the HOME environment variable for the pxp-agent service. Otherwize, pxp-agent running a powershell task won't be able to find and import available modules:
```
echo "HOME=/root" >> /etc/sysconfig/pxp-agent
systemctl restart pxp-agent
```
Install this module. If you don't use Code Manager, make sure to install it into /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/modules so PE will see the plans inside it.
Check that you can see the tasks inside the module
```
puppet task show|grep vmware
```

You should see the tasks in this module listed.

Check that you can see the plans inside the module
```
puppet plan show|grep vmware
```

You should see the plans in this module listed.

Run a test task

puppet task run vmware_tasks::test -n <primary_certname>

Install the modified puppetlabs-lvm module in /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/modules so PE will see the plans inside it even if CodeManager is not used:
```
git clone https://github.com/timidri/puppetlabs-lvm.git lvm
cd lvm
git checkout fix-logical-volumes-fact
puppet agent -t
```
Run puppet agent -t to install lvm module's types and providers
Check whether you can see the module's plan and facts:
```
puppet plan show|grep lvm
facter -p logical_volumes
```
Install the puppetlabs-relay module and use it to install and configure the relay agent.
Create a Relay workflow running a task inside vmware_tasks