Greetings All, I've just gotten permission from the powers that be to release some tools I've been using internally on my team for a couple months now. These are a set of Ansible modules that you can use to create/destroy and modify virtual machines on z/VM via SMAPI.
Yes - I am aware of everyones feelings regarding SMAPI. No there were not any better alternatives to do what I needed to do easily within the time I had to do it. The good news is though: it actually works! Using these modules and playbooks you can spawn an entire openshift cluster ( some assembly required, I'm not providing a load balancer, dns updates, bastion host, firewall, you're all clever people I dont have to hold your hands on all that ) The base repo is at https://github.com/IBM/zvm_ansible thats where all the ansible playbook samples are with a sample inventory file. The test_ examples show cases of creating, modifying, and deleting virtual machines, as well as adding, cloning, and removing minidisks. You will also need the actual modules from https://github.com/IBM/zvm_ansible_collection You'll have to pull down the module code and build a galaxy tarball and install it on your machine you're running the ansible playbooks from - theres instructions in the readme. At the moment its just me maintaining these. They work for my usecases, and when you find horrible bugs ( you will ) open an issue and I will do my best. This aint my day job, but I'm working to assemble a crack team to make it their day jobs. The ultimate goal is to eventually get the modules accepted into the Red Hat Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z ( https://github.com/ansible-collections/ibm_zos_core ), so it will become supported by both IBM and RH. Thats not gonna happen this week though - so for now, please have a peek and let me know if you think this will be useful to you and yours. Happy Ansibiling! -- Jay Brenneman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
