The previous two articles covered how vRealize Automation 8 works with Ansible Open Source. Our infrastructure already uses Polemarch to work with Ansible, but there is no integration with it in vRA 8. In order not to wait for the development of integration from VMware, we will do it ourselves using Custom Resources and Dynamic Types.
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vRA 8: Ansible + Kubernetes
The previous article vRA 8: Ansible Integration tested using Ansible to configure servers in vRealize Automation 8. Let’s see how this works on a real-world task – deploying a kubernetes cluster. There is a large selection of ready-made Ansible playbooks, one of the most advanced is Kubespray. Let’s develop a vRA blueprint to create a K8S cluster using Kubespray.
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Let’s start testing new features and preparing to migrate to vRealize Automition 8. Our vRA 7.x installation uses software components extensively to configure our servers. Therefore, the main question is how to configure the server if the software components are no longer there? vRA 8 offers several solutions: cloud-init, Ansible Tower and just Ansible (on a remote SSH server).
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