community.general.kubevirt_vm – Manage KubeVirt virtual machine¶

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.6).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.kubevirt_vm.

Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values

Synopsis ¶

Use Openshift Python SDK to manage the state of KubeVirt virtual machines.

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

openshift >= 0.8.2
python >= 2.7

Parameters ¶

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
affinity dictionary			Describes node affinity scheduling rules for the vm.
	hard dictionary		If the affinity requirements specified by this field are not met at scheduling time, the vm will not be scheduled onto the node. If the affinity requirements specified by this field cease to be met at some point during vm execution (e.g. due to a vm label update), the system may or may not try to eventually evict the vm from its node. When there are multiple elements, the lists of nodes corresponding to each `term` are intersected, i.e. all terms must be satisfied.
	soft dictionary		The scheduler will prefer to schedule vms to nodes that satisfy the affinity expressions specified by this field, but it may choose a node that violates one or more of the expressions. The node that is most preferred is the one with the greatest sum of weights, i.e. for each node that meets all of the scheduling requirements (resource request, requiredDuringScheduling affinity expressions, etc.), compute a sum by iterating through the elements of this field and adding `weight` to the sum if the node has vms which matches the corresponding `term`; the nodes with the highest sum are the most preferred.
anti_affinity dictionary			Describes vm anti-affinity scheduling rules e.g. avoid putting this vm in the same node, zone, etc. as some other vms.
	hard dictionary		If the anti-affinity requirements specified by this field are not met at scheduling time, the vm will not be scheduled onto the node. If the anti-affinity requirements specified by this field cease to be met at some point during vm execution (e.g. due to a vm label update), the system may or may not try to eventually evict the vm from its node. When there are multiple elements, the lists of nodes corresponding to each `term` are intersected, i.e. all terms must be satisfied.
	soft dictionary		The scheduler will prefer to schedule vms to nodes that satisfy the anti-affinity expressions specified by this field, but it may choose a node that violates one or more of the expressions. The node that is most preferred is the one with the greatest sum of weights, i.e. for each node that meets all of the scheduling requirements (resource request, requiredDuringScheduling anti-affinity expressions, etc.), compute a sum by iterating through the elements of this field and adding `weight` to the sum if the node has vms which matches the corresponding `term`; the nodes with the highest sum are the most preferred.
api_key string			Token used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_API_KEY environment variable.
bootloader string			Specify the bootloader of the virtual machine. All virtual machines use BIOS by default for booting.
ca_cert path			Path to a CA certificate used to authenticate with the API. The full certificate chain must be provided to avoid certificate validation errors. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_SSL_CA_CERT environment variable. aliases: ssl_ca_cert
client_cert path			Path to a certificate used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_CERT_FILE environment variable. aliases: cert_file
client_key path			Path to a key file used to authenticate with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KEY_FILE environment variable. aliases: key_file
cloud_init_nocloud dictionary			Represents a cloud-init NoCloud user-data source. The NoCloud data will be added as a disk to the virtual machine. A proper cloud-init installation is required inside the guest. More information https://kubevirt.io/api-reference/master/definitions.html#_v1_cloudinitnocloudsource
context string			The name of a context found in the config file. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_CONTEXT environment variable.
cpu_cores integer			Number of CPU cores.
cpu_features list / elements=string			List of dictionary to fine-tune features provided by the selected CPU model. Note: Policy attribute can either be omitted or contain one of the following policies: force, require, optional, disable, forbid. Note: In case a policy is omitted for a feature, it will default to require. More information about policies: https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsCPU
cpu_limit integer			Is converted to its millicore value and multiplied by 100. The resulting value is the total amount of CPU time that a container can use every 100ms. A virtual machine cannot use more than its share of CPU time during this interval.
cpu_model string			CPU model. You can check list of available models here: https://github.com/libvirt/libvirt/blob/master/src/cpu_map/index.xml. Note: User can define default CPU model via as default-cpu-model in kubevirt-config ConfigMap, if not set host-model is used. Note: Be sure that node CPU model where you run a VM, has the same or higher CPU family. Note: If CPU model wasn't defined, the VM will have CPU model closest to one that used on the node where the VM is running.
cpu_shares integer			Specify CPU shares.
datavolumes list / elements=string			DataVolumes are a way to automate importing virtual machine disks onto pvcs during the virtual machine's launch flow. Without using a DataVolume, users have to prepare a pvc with a disk image before assigning it to a VM or VMI manifest. With a DataVolume, both the pvc creation and import is automated on behalf of the user.
disks list / elements=string			List of dictionaries which specify disks of the virtual machine. A disk can be made accessible via four different types: disk, lun, cdrom, floppy. All possible configuration options are available in https://kubevirt.io/api-reference/master/definitions.html#_v1_disk Each disk must have specified a volume that declares which volume type of the disk All possible configuration options of volume are available in https://kubevirt.io/api-reference/master/definitions.html#_v1_volume.
ephemeral boolean		Choices: no ← yes	If (true) ephemeral virtual machine will be created. When destroyed it won't be accessible again. Works only with `state` present and absent.
force boolean		Choices: no ← yes	If set to `no`, and state is `present`, an existing object will be replaced.
headless string			Specify if the virtual machine should have attached a minimal Video and Graphics device configuration. By default a minimal Video and Graphics device configuration will be applied to the VirtualMachineInstance. The video device is vga compatible and comes with a memory size of 16 MB.
host string			Provide a URL for accessing the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_HOST environment variable.
hostname string			Specifies the hostname of the virtual machine. The hostname will be set either by dhcp, cloud-init if configured or virtual machine name will be used.
hugepage_size string			Specify huge page size.
interfaces list / elements=string			An interface defines a virtual network interface of a virtual machine (also called a frontend). All possible configuration options interfaces are available in https://kubevirt.io/api-reference/master/definitions.html#_v1_interface Each interface must have specified a network that declares which logical or physical device it is connected to (also called as backend). All possible configuration options of network are available in https://kubevirt.io/api-reference/master/definitions.html#_v1_network.
kubeconfig path			Path to an existing Kubernetes config file. If not provided, and no other connection options are provided, the openshift client will attempt to load the default configuration file from ~/.kube/config.json. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_KUBECONFIG environment variable.
labels dictionary			Labels are key/value pairs that are attached to virtual machines. Labels are intended to be used to specify identifying attributes of virtual machines that are meaningful and relevant to users, but do not directly imply semantics to the core system. Labels can be used to organize and to select subsets of virtual machines. Labels can be attached to virtual machines at creation time and subsequently added and modified at any time. More on labels that are used for internal implementation https://kubevirt.io/user-guide/#/misc/annotations_and_labels
machine_type string			QEMU machine type is the actual chipset of the virtual machine.
memory string			The amount of memory to be requested by virtual machine. For example 1024Mi.
memory_limit string			The maximum memory to be used by virtual machine. For example 1024Mi.
merge_type list / elements=string		Choices: json merge strategic-merge	Whether to override the default patch merge approach with a specific type. If more than one merge type is given, the merge types will be tried in order. Defaults to `['strategic-merge', 'merge']`, which is ideal for using the same parameters on resource kinds that combine Custom Resources and built-in resources, as Custom Resource Definitions typically aren't updatable by the usual strategic merge. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/update-api-object-kubectl-patch/#use-a-json-merge-patch-to-update-a-deployment
name string / required			Name of the virtual machine.
namespace string / required			Namespace where the virtual machine exists.
node_affinity dictionary			Describes vm affinity scheduling rules e.g. co-locate this vm in the same node, zone, etc. as some other vms
	hard dictionary		If the affinity requirements specified by this field are not met at scheduling time, the vm will not be scheduled onto the node. If the affinity requirements specified by this field cease to be met at some point during vm execution (e.g. due to an update), the system may or may not try to eventually evict the vm from its node.
	soft dictionary		The scheduler will prefer to schedule vms to nodes that satisfy the affinity expressions specified by this field, but it may choose a node that violates one or more of the expressions. The node that is most preferred is the one with the greatest sum of weights, i.e. for each node that meets all of the scheduling requirements (resource request, requiredDuringScheduling affinity expressions, etc.), compute a sum by iterating through the elements of this field and adding `weight` to the sum if the node matches the corresponding match_expressions; the nodes with the highest sum are the most preferred.
password string			Provide a password for authenticating with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PASSWORD environment variable. Please read the description of the `username` option for a discussion of when this option is applicable.
persist_config boolean		Choices: no yes	Whether or not to save the kube config refresh tokens. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PERSIST_CONFIG environment variable. When the k8s context is using a user credentials with refresh tokens (like oidc or gke/gcloud auth), the token is refreshed by the k8s python client library but not saved by default. So the old refresh token can expire and the next auth might fail. Setting this flag to true will tell the k8s python client to save the new refresh token to the kube config file. Default to false. Please note that the current version of the k8s python client library does not support setting this flag to True yet. The fix for this k8s python library is here: https://github.com/kubernetes-client/python-base/pull/169
proxy string			The URL of an HTTP proxy to use for the connection. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_PROXY environment variable. Please note that this module does not pick up typical proxy settings from the environment (e.g. HTTP_PROXY).
resource_definition dictionary			A partial YAML definition of the object being created/updated. Here you can define Kubernetes resource parameters not covered by this module's parameters. NOTE: resource_definition has lower priority than module parameters. If you try to define e.g. metadata.namespace here, that value will be ignored and namespace used instead. aliases: definition, inline
smbios_uuid string			In order to provide a consistent view on the virtualized hardware for the guest OS, the SMBIOS UUID can be set.
state string		Choices: present ← absent running stopped	Set the virtual machine to either present, absent, running or stopped. present - Create or update a virtual machine. (And run it if it's ephemeral.) absent - Remove a virtual machine. running - Create or update a virtual machine and run it. stopped - Stop a virtual machine. (This deletes ephemeral VMs.)
subdomain string			If specified, the fully qualified virtual machine hostname will be hostname.subdomain.namespace.svc.cluster_domain. If not specified, the virtual machine will not have a domain name at all. The DNS entry will resolve to the virtual machine, no matter if the virtual machine itself can pick up a hostname.
tablets list / elements=string			Specify tablets to be used as input devices
template string			Name of Template to be used in creation of a virtual machine.
template_parameters dictionary			New values of parameters from Template.
username string			Provide a username for authenticating with the API. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_USERNAME environment variable. Please note that this only works with clusters configured to use HTTP Basic Auth. If your cluster has a different form of authentication (e.g. OAuth2 in OpenShift), this option will not work as expected and you should look into the `k8s_auth` module, as that might do what you need.
validate_certs boolean		Choices: no yes	Whether or not to verify the API server's SSL certificates. Can also be specified via K8S_AUTH_VERIFY_SSL environment variable. aliases: verify_ssl
wait boolean		Choices: no yes ←	True if the module should wait for the resource to get into desired state.
wait_sleep string added in 0.2.0 of community.general		Default: 5	Number of seconds to sleep between checks.
wait_timeout integer		Default: 120	The amount of time in seconds the module should wait for the resource to get into desired state.

Notes ¶

Note

The OpenShift Python client wraps the K8s Python client, providing full access to all of the APIS and models available on both platforms. For API version details and additional information visit https://github.com/openshift/openshift-restclient-python
To avoid SSL certificate validation errors when validate_certs is True, the full certificate chain for the API server must be provided via ca_cert or in the kubeconfig file.
In order to use this module you have to install Openshift Python SDK. To ensure it’s installed with correct version you can create the following task: pip: name=openshift>=0.8.2

Examples ¶

- name: Start virtual machine 'myvm'
  community.general.kubevirt_vm:
      state: running
      name: myvm
      namespace: vms

- name: Create virtual machine 'myvm' and start it
  community.general.kubevirt_vm:
      state: running
      name: myvm
      namespace: vms
      memory: 64Mi
      cpu_cores: 1
      bootloader: efi
      smbios_uuid: 5d307ca9-b3ef-428c-8861-06e72d69f223
      cpu_model: Conroe
      headless: true
      hugepage_size: 2Mi
      tablets:
        - bus: virtio
          name: tablet1
      cpu_limit: 3
      cpu_shares: 2
      disks:
        - name: containerdisk
          volume:
            containerDisk:
              image: kubevirt/cirros-container-disk-demo:latest
              path: /custom-disk/cirros.img
          disk:
            bus: virtio

- name: Create virtual machine 'myvm' with multus network interface
  community.general.kubevirt_vm:
      name: myvm
      namespace: vms
      memory: 512M
      interfaces:
        - name: default
          bridge: {}
          network:
            pod: {}
        - name: mynet
          bridge: {}
          network:
            multus:
              networkName: mynetconf

- name: Combine inline definition with Ansible parameters
  community.general.kubevirt_vm:
      # Kubernetes specification:
      definition:
        metadata:
          labels:
            app: galaxy
            service: web
            origin: vmware

      # Ansible parameters:
      state: running
      name: myvm
      namespace: vms
      memory: 64M
      disks:
        - name: containerdisk
          volume:
            containerDisk:
              image: kubevirt/cirros-container-disk-demo:latest
              path: /custom-disk/cirros.img
          disk:
            bus: virtio

- name: Start ephemeral virtual machine 'myvm' and wait to be running
  community.general.kubevirt_vm:
      ephemeral: true
      state: running
      wait: true
      wait_timeout: 180
      name: myvm
      namespace: vms
      memory: 64M
      labels:
        kubevirt.io/vm: myvm
      disks:
        - name: containerdisk
          volume:
            containerDisk:
              image: kubevirt/cirros-container-disk-demo:latest
              path: /custom-disk/cirros.img
          disk:
            bus: virtio

- name: Start fedora vm with cloud init
  community.general.kubevirt_vm:
      state: running
      wait: true
      name: myvm
      namespace: vms
      memory: 1024M
      cloud_init_nocloud:
        userData: |-
          #cloud-config
          password: fedora
          chpasswd: { expire: False }
      disks:
        - name: containerdisk
          volume:
            containerDisk:
              image: kubevirt/fedora-cloud-container-disk-demo:latest
              path: /disk/fedora.qcow2
          disk:
            bus: virtio
      node_affinity:
        soft:
          - weight: 1
            term:
              match_expressions:
                - key: security
                  operator: In
                  values:
                    - S2

- name: Create virtual machine with datavolume and specify node affinity
  community.general.kubevirt_vm:
    name: myvm
    namespace: default
    memory: 1024Mi
    datavolumes:
      - name: mydv
        source:
          http:
            url: https://url/disk.qcow2
        pvc:
          accessModes:
            - ReadWriteOnce
          storage: 5Gi
    node_affinity:
      hard:
        - term:
            match_expressions:
              - key: security
                operator: In
                values:
                  - S1

- name: Remove virtual machine 'myvm'
  community.general.kubevirt_vm:
      state: absent
      name: myvm
      namespace: vms

Return Values ¶

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
kubevirt_vm complex	success	The virtual machine dictionary specification returned by the API. This dictionary contains all values returned by the KubeVirt API all options are described here https://kubevirt.io/api-reference/master/definitions.html#_v1_virtualmachine

Authors¶

KubeVirt Team (@kubevirt)

community.general.kubevirt_vm – Manage KubeVirt virtual machine¶

Synopsis¶

Requirements¶

Parameters¶

Notes¶

Examples¶

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