Troubleshooting Ansible for VMware¶
Topics
This section lists things that can go wrong and possible ways to fix them.
Debugging Ansible for VMware¶
When debugging or creating a new issue, you will need information about your VMware infrastructure. You can get this information using govc, For example:
$ export GOVC_USERNAME=ESXI_OR_VCENTER_USERNAME
$ export GOVC_PASSWORD=ESXI_OR_VCENTER_PASSWORD
$ export GOVC_URL=https://ESXI_OR_VCENTER_HOSTNAME:443
$ govc find /
Known issues with Ansible for VMware¶
Network settings with vmware_guest in Ubuntu 18.04¶
Setting the network with vmware_guest
in Ubuntu 18.04 is known to be broken, due to missing support for netplan
in the open-vm-tools
.
This issue is tracked via:
Potential Workarounds¶
There are several workarounds for this issue.
Modify the Ubuntu 18.04 images and installing
ifupdown
in them viasudo apt install ifupdown
. If so you need to removenetplan
viasudo apt remove netplan.io
and you need stopsystemd-networkd
viasudo systemctl disable systemctl-networkd
.Generate the
systemd-networkd
files with a task in your VMware Ansible role:
- name: make sure cache directory exists
file: path="{{ inventory_dir }}/cache" state=directory
delegate_to: localhost
- name: generate network templates
template: src=network.j2 dest="{{ inventory_dir }}/cache/{{ inventory_hostname }}.network"
delegate_to: localhost
- name: copy generated files to vm
vmware_guest_file_operation:
hostname: "{{ vmware_general.hostname }}"
username: "{{ vmware_username }}"
password: "{{ vmware_password }}"
datacenter: "{{ vmware_general.datacenter }}"
validate_certs: "{{ vmware_general.validate_certs }}"
vm_id: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
vm_username: root
vm_password: "{{ template_password }}"
copy:
src: "{{ inventory_dir }}/cache/{{ inventory_hostname }}.network"
dest: "/etc/systemd/network/ens160.network"
overwrite: False
delegate_to: localhost
- name: restart systemd-networkd
vmware_vm_shell:
hostname: "{{ vmware_general.hostname }}"
username: "{{ vmware_username }}"
password: "{{ vmware_password }}"
datacenter: "{{ vmware_general.datacenter }}"
folder: /vm
vm_id: "{{ inventory_hostname}}"
vm_username: root
vm_password: "{{ template_password }}"
vm_shell: /bin/systemctl
vm_shell_args: " restart systemd-networkd"
delegate_to: localhost
- name: restart systemd-resolved
vmware_vm_shell:
hostname: "{{ vmware_general.hostname }}"
username: "{{ vmware_username }}"
password: "{{ vmware_password }}"
datacenter: "{{ vmware_general.datacenter }}"
folder: /vm
vm_id: "{{ inventory_hostname}}"
vm_username: root
vm_password: "{{ template_password }}"
vm_shell: /bin/systemctl
vm_shell_args: " restart systemd-resolved"
delegate_to: localhost
Wait for
netplan
support inopen-vm-tools