On Friday 03 July 2020 at 12:26:10, Victor Hooi wrote:
> We have a small VM cluster we use for testing (Proxmox, with KVM VMs).
>
> We've created a library of KVM templates, that users can clone to new VMs.
>
> Each clone has a unique MAC address, and SMBIOS ID, but is otherwise
> identical.
>
> My question is - is there any way of using Ansible to manage the machines,
> without needing to manually setup Ansible on each one?
>
> For example - can we install Ansible in the base image, and somehow have it
> identify itself based on MAC/SMBIOS, and check-in to the central server
> that way?
You seem to be thinking of Puppet - that has a client on the target machine
which pulls its config from the master.
Ansible is a push mechanism where the Ansible server connects out to the
target machines and configures them.
So, yes, what you want to do is certainly achievable - the machine running
Ansible just needs to know about the VMs you want to manage.
Antony.
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