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VMware: community plan

Klaus Frank edited this page Aug 6, 2018 · 30 revisions

VMware community ideas, concerns, solutions

This document lists various items discussed for future development

Feel free to add your ideas, concerns, solutions to this list.

Major problems

  • We lack experienced VMware people with a deep understanding of VMware internals
    • Although we seem to have a very large/interested community, only 3 people are active
    • We need help in reviewing code and help with design decisions and implementation
    • As a result the breaking folder-changes may not actually the best way forward, but it will ship in v2.4...
  • Quality of VMware modules is lacking
    • We have no real infrastructure for testing (no ESXi, no vCenter...)
      • vcsim has a lot of limitations -- details
    • A lot of VMware modules are not idempotent or do not support check-mode -- details
    • Most VMware modules lack integration tests -- details
  • There is no holistic view to VMware support
    • How do we expect users to manage their VMware and vCenter infrastructure (What are we working towards ?)
    • What modules do we lack to cover this ?
    • How are modules supposed to work together (common functionality, standard interfaces, parameters, result values)

Other problems and limitations

  • There is no module to generate content of a virtual floppy or virtual cd image, to provide files to the guest in a very early state (e. g. VMXNet3 or the Para virtual driver while bein in the os setup screen)

Ansible v2.4 freeze - Done

  • Adding support for configuring a CD-rom iso image #28155
  • Added folder and datacenter to the examples #25221

Module development

Documentation

  • A separate VMware related section for users, and one for developers would be useful.

Clean up actions

  • Start tracking which modules do no have integration tests yet - Tracker
  • Start tracking which modules should be adapted to latest capabilities of module_utils/vmware.py

(ARchived) Working groups

Working groups are now in the Ansible forum

Ansible project:
Community, Contributor Experience, Docs, News, Outreach, RelEng, Testing

Cloud:
AWS, Azure, CloudStack, Container, DigitalOcean, Docker, hcloud, Kubernetes, Linode, OpenStack, oVirt, Virt, VMware

Networking:
ACI, AVI, F5, Meraki, Network, NXOS

Ansible Developer Tools:
Ansible-developer-tools

Software:
Crypto, Foreman, GDrive, GitLab, Grafana, IPA, JBoss, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Zabbix

System:
AIX, BSD, HP-UX, macOS, Remote Management, Solaris, Windows

Security:
Security-Automation, Lockdown

Tooling:
AWX, Galaxy, Molecule

Communities

Modules:
unarchive, xml

Plugins:
httpapi

Wiki

Roles, Communication, Reviewing, Checklist, TODO

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