[ovirt-users] Request for oVirt Ansible modules testing feedback

[Dan Yasny]

I personally found that she'll isn't as useful as the python sdk. I usually
open up ipython, load the sdk and interact with ovirt directly. This is
faster and much more powerful than the shell could ever be.

On Dec 30, 2016 11:22 AM, "Nathanaël Blanchet" <blanchet at abes.fr> wrote:

> Interesting work and thank you for this stuff. I played with some modules
> (ovirt_vms_facts) to get some vms name for example.
>
>    - [root at acore ovirt]# ansible-playbook All_Vms_list.yml
>    - with
>      - name: List vms
>        ovirt_vms_facts:
>          auth: "{{ ovirt_auth }}"
>          pattern: name=test_cloud
>          fetch_nested: true
>          nested_attributes: name
>        register: ovirt_vms
>
>      - shell: echo "{{ ovirt_vms.name }} > vms_name" // doesn't work
>
>
>    -   - shell: echo "{{ ovirt_vms }} > vms_name // returns an unicode
>    json file, that's surely why we can't parse it. Can you help me to solve
>    this into the ovirt_vms_facts.py file?
>
>
>    - I have no such problem with ovirt_snaphots_module and I can easily
>    get the snaphot.id variable.... but:
>       - I had to manually copy the ovirt_snaphsots_module because it is
>       not present on the git tree. This is very curious: we can find it here
>       http://ovirt-ansible-modules.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_
>       modules/ovirt_snapshots_module.htm
>       <http://ovirt-ansible-modules.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_modules/ovirt_snapshots_module.htm>,
>       but it is not available on the main ansible git tre.
>       - On the doc, return values are not described
>
> For the moment, my opinion is that ansible can't be as much convinient as
> the current CLI, e.g. ovirt-shell -E "list vms", out of the box. Is there a
> really reason to deprecate it?
>
> Le 02/12/2016 à 14:12, Ondra Machacek a écrit :
>
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to kindly ask everyone who is Ansible or oVirt user for
> testing of the new Ansible oVirt modules. For everyone who is familiar
> with the Ansible and oVirt, this[1] describes the steps you need to do,
> to setup oVirt modules library and start using those modules (Most of
> those modules will be available in Ansible 2.3, some of them are already in
> 2.2).
>
> If you have any issue setting this up, please contact me, I will do the
> best to help you.
>
> If you have an issue, which you think is a bug, please open an issue
> here[2]. Please note that Ansible is merging it's repositories, so since
> next week it will actually be stored here[3]. If you are missing
> anything please open an issue as well, or just contact me, and I will
> do fix it. You are also very welcome to sent PR with fixes.
>
> For those who don't have testing environment which can test against,
> I've created an Vagrant project which will deploy you the oVirt instance
> using Ansible playbooks. You can find how to use it here[4].
>
> The repository also contains few examples[5], so you don't have to
> copy-paste them from the source.
>
> Thanks all for reading this and any feedback,
> Ondra
>
> [1] https://github.com/machacekondra/ovirt-tests/releases/tag/0.1
> [2] https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/issues
> [3] https://github.com/ansible/ansible
> [4] https://github.com/machacekondra/ovirt-tests
> [5] https://github.com/machacekondra/ovirt-tests/tree/master/examples
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