Molecule VMware is designed to allow use of VMware vSphere environment for provisioning test resources.
Please note that this driver is currently in its early stage of development.
Install molecule-vmware and pre-requisites:
pip install molecule-vmware ansible pyvmomi
Please also install pywinrm if you want to use Windows in test instance.
pip install pywinrm
Create a new role with molecule using the vmware driver:
molecule init role <role_name> -d vmware
Configure <role_name>/molecule/default/molecule.yml
with required parameters based on your vSphere environment.
A simple config is:
dependency:
name: galaxy
driver:
name: vmware
vcenter_hostname: vcsa.local
vcenter_username: administrator@vsphere.local
vcenter_password: secret
validate_certs: false
datacenter: dc
#esxi_hostname: change me to esxi hostname of deploying an instance. need it if not cluster specified
cluster: cluster01
folder: /vm/example
vm_username: root
vm_password: secret
instance_os_type: linux # is possible only specify [linux or windows]
# The below are possible parameters to be specified if using the windows template.
#winrm_port: 5986 # is WinRM port
#connection: winrm # is the connection type
#winrm_transport: ntlm # is the authentication type
#winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore # is the server certificate validation mode
# The below list is possible to define DNS nameservers
#dns_servers:
# - "8.8.8.8"
# - "8.8.4.4"
platforms:
- name: instance1
template: CentOS7
hardware:
num_cpus: 2
memory_mb: 2048
networks:
- name: VM Network
type: dhcp
- name: instance2
template: CentOS8
snapshot_src: linked_clone # is a snapshot name to be possible specified if you want to use linked clone.
resource_pool: rpool # is a resource pool to be possible specified
hardware:
num_cpus: 2
memory_mb: 2048
networks:
- name: VM Network
ip: 100.64.0.2
netmask: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 100.64.0.1
# The below are possible parameters to be specified if using the windows template.
#customization:
# fullname: molecule # is the server owner name
# orgname: molecule # is the organization name
provisioner:
name: ansible
verifier:
name: ansible
A template requires vmware tools because it is done Sysprep or Linuxprep to initialize OS.
When Linux, please also install Perl to the template.
The MIT License.