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

[Nathanaël Blanchet]

Thanks Ondra


Le 05/01/2017 à 21:31, Ondra Machacek a écrit :
> ovirt_vms_facts module returns list of vms which match the pattern,
> so something like this should work (I didn't try):
>
> - name: print
>    shell: echo "{{ item.name }} >> vms_name"
>    with_items: "{{ ovirt_vms }}"
Yes it works, more accurately with shell: echo "{{ item.name }}" >> vms_name

Now I want to get the full vm facts as a json file. For this, I use the 
return value ovirt_vms as this : shell: echo "{{ ovirt_vms }}" > 
ovirt_vms.json
But the file is unicode format (with "u" anywhere) and I'd want to get 
the same in a standard json file (pretty or not). Is there a way to get 
this file in an ascci format or to convert it?
>
> Oh right, the snapshots module wasn't merged, I will fix up, thank you.
>
> Yes I agree, that Ansible modules can't currently fully replace the CLI.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 5:22 PM, 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,
>> 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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