Cross platform automated patch management

stacksofplates

So I told @fuznutz04 the other night I'd send him my Ansible role that creates KVM guests and I completely forgot. Here's a link to what I wrote: https://hooks.technology/2017/10/create-vms-on-kvm-with-ansible/

There is also a library that Larry Smith wrote. Here's a link to the PR https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39340. I just copied what he wrote and put it in my libraries folder so I can use it as a custom module. This module will actually clone a template for you. Here's his example:

---
- hosts:          kvm
  vars:
    vm_template:  ubuntu1604-packer-template
    vms:
      - name:     app01
        state:    started
        template: "{{ vm_template }}"
      - name:     db01
        state:    started
        template: "{{ vm_template }}"
      - name:     lb01
        state:    started
        template: "{{ vm_template }}"
      - name:     web01
        state:    started
        template: "{{ vm_template }}"
  tasks:
    - name:       Cloning VMs
      virt_clone:
        name:     "{{ item['name'] }}"
        state:    "{{ item['state'] }}"
        template: "{{ item['template'] }}"
        uuid:     "{{ item['uuid']|default(omit) }}"
      become:     true
      loop:       "{{ vms }}"

Sorry it took so long to get this out there.

stacksofplates

This is the provider I use to clone KVM guests with Terraform https://github.com/dmacvicar/terraform-provider-libvirt