Echoing what others have said. Ansible is your best option here. 

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 7:22 AM Nathanaël Blanchet <blanchet@abes.fr> wrote:

Le 27/02/2020 à 11:00, Yedidyah Bar David a écrit :

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 11:53 AM Eugène Ngontang <sympavali@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes Ansible ovirt_vms module is useful, I use it for provisioning/deployment, but once my VM created, I'd like to administrate/interact with them, I don't think I should write playbooks for that.

Why not? You're the next devops :)

I was used to use ovirt-shell (removed from 4.4), and instead of it I control now all my vms with ansible playbooks:

• consultation with ovirt-*_inf with appropriate filters (combine , dict2items) and conditions (when, until)
  
• interaction with other modules (with present/absent statement for all parameters)

I precise I am not a developer but once I took the habit with a proper environment (venv, IDE, loops, structured playbook and roles, dict struct, etc..), I was able do what I want, or rather what the API let me do.

Before begining, I should advice you to take the time to study the structure of the output of the registered variable

Here is a piece of my commonly used playbooks to check status of wanted vms:

- name: template ovirt pour tester les modules

hosts: localhost

connection: local

tasks:

- block:

- include: ovirt_auth.yaml

tags: auth,change

- name: vm facts

ovirt_vm_info:

auth: "{{ ovirt_auth }}"

pattern: "name=vm5 or name=vm8"

register: vm_info

- debug: var=vm_info.ovirt_vms

# msg: "{{vm_info.ovirt_vms | map(attribute='status')|list}}"

- name: "Génération d'un dictionnaire avec combine"

set_fact:

vm_status: "{{ vm_status|default({})|combine({item.name: item.status}) }}"

loop: "{{vm_info.ovirt_vms}}"

when: item.status == "up"

- debug:

msg: "{{vm_status}}"

always:

- include: ovirt_auth_revoke.yaml

tags: auth,change

Good luck!

This is up to you, of course.

For a project that uses heavily the ansible modules, see
ovirt-ansible-hosted-engine-setup.

For one that uses the python SDK, see ovirt-system-tests. The SDK
itself also has a very useful collection of examples.

But I'll find a solution.

Good luck and best regards,

-- 
Nathanaël Blanchet

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