On 05/21/2018 11:51 AM, 03ce007(a)gmail.com wrote: > I have a self-hosted-engine (4.2) running on a centos 7.4 server. > > I have downloaded ovirt ansible roles from ansible-galaxy and can run them from the server where the engineVM is running and able to deploy new vms, clusters, dc, etc. > > I have seen the use of ovirt4.py file to target and group hosts which you can target for specific plays. However, the box where self-hosted-engine is running is a physical server but I am looking to run ansible from my local machine instead to manage vms running on engineVM. Is there a way to achieve this? Sure you can use your own computer to manage the VMs. In your playbook you just need to specify group/host where the tasks of the playbook should run. So if using the ovirt4.py script as your inventory file, you need to just specify specific group where you want to run the tasks in your playbook like this: - hosts: tag_httpd tasks: ... If you want to Create/Delete VMs using ovirt_* modules, you can do it from your computer as well, but you need to install Python SDK version 4. You can download it from pip using following command: pip install ovirt-engine-sdk-python. > > Thank you in advance. > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org >

Hi, you can use multiple different inventory sources at the same time - so use your file + ovirt4.py https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/user_guide/intro_ dynamic_inventory.html#using-inventory-directories-and- multiple-inventory-sources Best regards Martin Sivak On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Sumit Bharadia <03ce007(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Thanks. > > Is there a way to use an existing inventory file? > > I asked because the server where the engineVM is running is listed into my > existing a ansible inventory file on my local machine, but how do I > specify/run the subsequent tasks which I want to run on vms running on > engineVM as I don't see the /etc/hosts file updated where engineVM runs. How > would my local ansible playbook know which vms are available, etc? > > > > On Tue, 22 May 2018, 8:36 am Ondra Machacek, <omachace(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >> On 05/21/2018 11:51 AM, 03ce007(a)gmail.com wrote: >> > I have a self-hosted-engine (4.2) running on a centos 7.4 server. >> > >> > I have downloaded ovirt ansible roles from ansible-galaxy and can run >> > them from the server where the engineVM is running and able to deploy new >> > vms, clusters, dc, etc. >> > >> > I have seen the use of ovirt4.py file to target and group hosts which >> > you can target for specific plays. However, the box where self-hosted-engine >> > is running is a physical server but I am looking to run ansible from my >> > local machine instead to manage vms running on engineVM. Is there a way to >> > achieve this? >> >> Sure you can use your own computer to manage the VMs. >> >> In your playbook you just need to specify group/host where the tasks of >> the playbook should run. >> >> So if using the ovirt4.py script as your inventory file, you need to >> just specify specific group where you want to run the tasks in your >> playbook like this: >> >> - hosts: tag_httpd >> tasks: >> ... >> >> If you want to Create/Delete VMs using ovirt_* modules, you can do it >> from your computer as well, but you need to install Python SDK version >> 4. You can download it from pip using following command: pip install >> ovirt-engine-sdk-python. >> >> > >> > Thank you in advance. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org >> > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org >