oVirt Ansible Roles

oVirt maintains multiple Ansible roles that can be deployed to easily configure and manage various parts of the oVirt infrastructure. Ansible roles provide a method of modularizing your Ansible code, in other words; it enables you to break up large playbooks into smaller reusable files. This enables you to have a separate role for each component of the infrustructure, and allows you to reuse and share roles with other users. For more information about roles, see Creating Reusable Playbooks in the Ansible Documentation.

Currently we have implemented following Ansible roles:

• oVirt.cluster-upgrade - easily upgrade your oVirt clusters, host by host.
• oVirt.disaster-recovery - plan, failover and failback oVirt in Disaster Recovery scenarios.
• oVirt.engine-setup - setup your oVirt Engine via Ansible.
• oVirt.hosted-engine-setup - setup your oVirt Hosted-Engine via Ansible.
• oVirt.infra - setup a complete oVirt setup (data centers, clusters, hosts, networks...) via this role.
• oVirt.image-template - easily create VM templates (via Glance or QCOW2 download)
• oVirt.manageiq - install and configure a ManageIQ (or CloudForms) VM appliance on your oVirt!
• oVirt.repositories - set up the required oVirt repositories on your hosts.
• oVirt.vm-infra - configure a complete VM setup (create and configure VMs and their properties)
• oVirt.v2v-conversion-host - define a host as a target for VMware to oVirt migration.
• oVirt.shutdown-env - shutdown the whole environment in a clean and ordered way.

Installing the oVirt Roles

There are multiple methods to install the Ansible roles on your Ansible server.

Installing from a Package

Note: You must have the official oVirt repository enabled. For more information see the oVirt Deployment Options.

The Ansible roles are packaged into an RPM file that can be installed from the command line.

Run the following command to install all roles:

# yum install ovirt-ansible-roles

Run the following command to install specific role:

# yum install ovirt-ansible-infra

To search all available roles you can execute following command:

# yum search ovirt-ansible

By default the roles will be installed to /usr/share/ansible/roles.

The structure of the ovirt-ansible-roles package is as follows:

• /usr/share/ansible/roles - stores the roles.
• /usr/share/ansible/roles/{role_name} - stores the specific role.
• /usr/share/doc/ovirt-ansible-roles/ - stores the examples, a basic overview and the licence.
• /usr/share/doc/{role_name} - stores the documentation and examples specific to the role.

Installing using Galaxy

Ansible provides a command line utility to install Roles directory from the Galaxy Repository. See the Galaxy website for more information about Galaxy.

To install the roles using Galaxy, run the following from the command line:

# ansible-galaxy install oVirt.ovirt-ansible-roles

To install the specific role using Galaxy, run the following from the command line:

# ansible-galaxy install oVirt.infra

All roles are available under oVirt organization on Ansible Galaxy.

By default the roles will be installed to /etc/ansible/roles.

The structure of ovirt.ovirt-ansible-roles is as follows:

• /etc/ansible/roles/ - stores the roles.
• /etc/ansible/roles/{role_name} - stores the specifc role.
• /etc/ansible/roles/{role_name}/examples - stores the examples, a basic overview

Getting Started

This section will guide you through creating and running your playbook against the engine. The following example connects to the engine on the local host and creates a new data center. The current working directory is /tmp.

Note: Ensure you have Python SDK installed on the machine running the playbook.

1. Create a file in your working directory to store the engine's user password:

$ cat passwords.yml
---
engine_password: youruserpassword

2. Encrypt the user password. You will be asked for a vault password.

$ ansible-vault encrypt passwords.yml
New Vault password:
Confirm New Vault password:

3. Create a file that contains engine details such as the hostname, certificate, and user.

$ cat engine_vars.yml
---
engine_fqdn: example.engine.redhat.com
engine_user: admin@internal
engine_cafile: /etc/pki/ovirt-engine/ca.pem

Note: If you prefer, these variables can be added directly to the playbook instead.

4. Create your playbook. To simplify this, you can copy and modify an example in /etc/ansible/roles/ovirt.ovirt-ansible-roles/examples or /usr/share/doc/ovirt-ansible-roles/examples depending on the method used to install the roles:

$ cat ovirt_infra.yml
---
- name: oVirt infra
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false

  vars_files:
    # Contains variables to connect to the engine
    - engine_vars.yml
    # Contains encrypted `engine_password` variable using ansible-vault
    - passwords.yml

  pre_tasks:
    - name: Login to oVirt
      ovirt_auth:
        hostname: "{{ engine_fqdn }}"
        username: "{{ engine_user }}"
        password: "{{ engine_password }}"
        ca_file: "{{ engine_cafile | default(omit) }}"
        insecure: "{{ engine_insecure | default(true) }}"
      tags:
        - always

  vars:
    data_center_name: mydatacenter
    data_center_description: mydatacenter
    data_center_local: false
    compatibility_version: 4.2

  roles:
    - oVirt.infra

  post_tasks:
    - name: Logout from oVirt
      ovirt_auth:
        state: absent
        ovirt_auth: "{{ ovirt_auth }}"
      tags:
        - always

5. Run the playbook.

$ ansible-playbook --ask-vault-pass ovirt_infra.yml

After the ansible-playbook playbook completes you will have a new data center named mydatacenter.