barnaclebob / vagrant-vcenter

A Vagrant provider for VMware vCenter®

Vagrant provider for VMware vCenter®

Version 0.2.0 has been released!

Please note that this software is still Alpha/Beta quality and is not recommended for production usage.

Right now a Precise32 is available for use, or you can roll your own as you please, make sure to install VMware tools in it.

Changes in version 0.2.0 include:

New Features

• Add option to set the actual vm name
• Set some options in the vm via linux prep
• Static networking
• Hostname
• Add option to set vmnetwork name and backing
• Vagrant now uses builtin SyncedFolders helper to synchronize folders

Fixes

• Fix the read_ssh_info if the vm doesn't have a network yet at first try the later ssh's wont forever fail

Many thanks to Karl Pietri for submitting PR #4 with all these new features!

Changes in version 0.1.1 include:

• Support for vagrant share [Fixes #2]
• Support for Vagrant Cloud boxes [Fixes #1]

Install

Latest version can be easily installed by running the following command:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vcenter

Vagrant will download all the required gems during the installation process.

If you already have the plugin installed you can use:

vagrant plugin upgrade vagrant-vcenter

To perform an upgrade to the latest version.

After the install has completed a vagrant up --provider=vcenter will trigger the newly installed provider.

Configuration

Here's a sample Multi-VM Vagrantfile:

precise32_box_url = 'http://vagrant.gosddc.com/boxes/precise32-vcenter.box'

nodes = [
  { hostname: 'web-vm',
    box: 'precise32',
    box_url: precise32_box_url },
  { hostname: 'ssh-vm',
    box: 'precise32',
    box_url: precise32_box_url },
  { hostname: 'sql-vm',
    box: 'precise32',
    box_url: precise32_box_url },
  { hostname: 'lb-vm',
    box: 'precise32',
    box_url: precise32_box_url }
]

Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|

  config.vm.provider :vcenter do |vcenter|
    vcenter.hostname = 'my.vcenter.hostname'
    vcenter.username = 'myUsername'
    vcenter.password = 'myPassword'
    vcenter.folder_name = 'myFolderName'
    vcenter.datacenter_name = 'MyDatacenterName'
    vcenter.computer_name = 'MyHostOrCluster'
    vcenter.datastore_name = 'MyDatastore'
    vcenter.template_folder_name = 'My/Template/Folder/Path'
    vcenter.network_name = 'myNetworkName'
    # If you want to use linked clones, set this to true
    vcenter.linked_clones = true
  end

  # Go through nodes and configure each of them.j
  nodes.each do |node|
    config.vm.define node[:hostname] do |node_config|
      node_config.vm.box = node[:box]
      node_config.vm.hostname = node[:hostname]
      node_config.vm.box_url = node[:box_url]
    #   node_config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
    #     puppet.manifests_path = 'puppet/manifests'
    #     puppet.manifest_file = 'site.pp'
    #     puppet.module_path = 'puppet/modules'
    #     puppet.options = "--verbose --debug"
    #   end
    end
  end
end

Contribute

What is still missing:

• TEST SUITES! (working on that).
• Speed, the code is definitely not optimized.
• Thorough testing.
• Error checking is absymal.
• Some spaghetti code here and there.
• Bugs, bugs and BUGS!.

If you're a developer and want to lend us a hand, head over to our develop branch and send us PRs!