ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_nic – Module to manage network interfaces of Virtual Machines in oVirt/RHV

Note

This plugin is part of the ovirt.ovirt collection (version 1.6.6).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install ovirt.ovirt.

To use it in a playbook, specify: ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_nic.

New in version 1.0.0: of ovirt.ovirt

Synopsis

  • Module to manage network interfaces of Virtual Machines in oVirt/RHV.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7

  • ovirt-engine-sdk-python >= 4.4.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

auth

dictionary / required

Dictionary with values needed to create HTTP/HTTPS connection to oVirt:

ca_file

string

A PEM file containing the trusted CA certificates.

The certificate presented by the server will be verified using these CA certificates.

If ca_file parameter is not set, system wide CA certificate store is used.

Default value is set by OVIRT_CAFILE environment variable.

compress

boolean

Flag indicating if compression is used for connection.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

headers

dictionary

Dictionary of HTTP headers to be added to each API call.

hostname

string

A string containing the hostname of the server, usually something like :emphasis:`server.example.com`.

Default value is set by OVIRT_HOSTNAME environment variable.

Either url or hostname is required.

insecure

boolean

A boolean flag that indicates if the server TLS certificate and host name should be checked.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

kerberos

boolean

A boolean flag indicating if Kerberos authentication should be used instead of the default basic authentication.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

password

string

The password of the user.

Default value is set by OVIRT_PASSWORD environment variable.

timeout

integer

Number of seconds to wait for response.

token

string

Token to be used instead of login with username/password.

Default value is set by OVIRT_TOKEN environment variable.

url

string

A string containing the API URL of the server, usually something like :emphasis:`https://server.example.com/ovirt-engine/api`.

Default value is set by OVIRT_URL environment variable.

Either url or hostname is required.

username

string

The name of the user, something like admin@internal.

Default value is set by OVIRT_USERNAME environment variable.

fetch_nested

boolean

If True the module will fetch additional data from the API.

It will fetch IDs of the VMs disks, snapshots, etc. User can configure to fetch other attributes of the nested entities by specifying nested_attributes.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

id

string

ID of the nic to manage.

interface

string

Type of the network interface. For example e1000, pci_passthrough, rtl8139, rtl8139_virtio, spapr_vlan or virtio.

It’s required parameter when creating the new NIC.

linked

boolean

Defines if the NIC is linked to the virtual machine.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

mac_address

string

Custom MAC address of the network interface, by default it’s obtained from MAC pool.

name

string / required

Name of the network interface to manage.

nested_attributes

list / elements=string

Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API.

This parameter apply only when fetch_nested is true.

network

string

Logical network to which the VM network interface should use, by default Empty network is used if network is not specified.

poll_interval

integer

Number of the seconds the module waits until another poll request on entity status is sent.

Default: 3

profile

string

Virtual network interface profile to be attached to VM network interface.

When not specified and network has only single profile it will be auto-selected, otherwise you must specify profile.

state

string

Should the Virtual Machine NIC be present/absent/plugged/unplugged.

Choices:

  • absent

  • plugged

  • present ← (default)

  • unplugged

template

string

Name of the template to manage.

You must provide either vm parameter or template parameter.

template_version

integer

added in 1.2.0 of ovirt.ovirt

Version number of the template.

timeout

integer

The amount of time in seconds the module should wait for the instance to get into desired state.

Default: 180

vm

string

Name of the Virtual Machine to manage.

You must provide either vm parameter or template parameter.

wait

boolean

yes if the module should wait for the entity to get into desired state.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • In order to use this module you have to install oVirt Python SDK. To ensure it’s installed with correct version you can create the following task: pip: name=ovirt-engine-sdk-python version=4.4.0

Examples

# Examples don't contain auth parameter for simplicity,
# look at ovirt_auth module to see how to reuse authentication:

- name: Add NIC to VM
  ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_nic:
    state: present
    vm: myvm
    name: mynic
    interface: e1000
    mac_address: 00:1a:4a:16:01:56
    profile: ovirtmgmt
    network: ovirtmgmt

- name: Plug NIC to VM
  ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_nic:
    state: plugged
    vm: myvm
    name: mynic

- name: Unplug NIC from VM
  ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_nic:
    state: unplugged
    linked: false
    vm: myvm
    name: mynic

- name: Add NIC to template
  ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_nic:
    auth: "{{ ovirt_auth }}"
    state: present
    template: my_template
    name: nic1
    interface: virtio
    profile: ovirtmgmt
    network: ovirtmgmt

- name: Remove NIC from VM
  ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_nic:
    state: absent
    vm: myvm
    name: mynic

# Change NIC Name
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_nic:
    id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
    name: "new_nic_name"
    vm: myvm

Return Values

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

Key

Description

id

string

ID of the network interface which is managed

Returned: On success if network interface is found.

Sample: “7de90f31-222c-436c-a1ca-7e655bd5b60c”

nic

dictionary

Dictionary of all the network interface attributes. Network interface attributes can be found on your oVirt/RHV instance at following url: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/master/#types/nic.

Returned: On success if network interface is found.

Authors

  • Ondra Machacek (@machacekondra)

  • Martin Necas (@mnecas)