OVA Deployment with Ansible in ESXi

[tryllz]

Hi,

I’m trying to deploy the VyOS 1.5 OVA with Ansible and set its IP and Subnet during deployment but its not working.

I have seen the below but could not find it there.

VyOS Automation — VyOS 1.5.x (circinus) documentation

Anyone knows how to achieve this…

Below is my Ansible playbook, and the OVA deploys fine but the IP does not get assigned.

---
- name: OVA DEPLOYMENT
  hosts: host1
  gather_facts: false
  become: true
  collections:
    - community.vmware

  vars_files:
    - vars_eur_vms.yml

  tasks:
    - name: OVA Deployment
      vmware_deploy_ovf:
        hostname: '{{ ansible_host }}'
        username: '{{ ansible_user }}'
        password: '{{ ansible_password }}'
        datastore: "{{ dstore1 }}"
        networks:
          "Network 1": "1G_Trunk"
          "Network 2": "10G_Trunk"
        ovf: "/root/VyOS.ova"
        name: "VyOS"

        properties:
          ip0: "192.168.1.10"
          netmask0: "255.255.255.0"
        wait_for_ip_address: true
        inject_ovf_env: true
        validate_certs: no
        power_on: 'yes'
      delegate_to: localhost

I did some research and found there is suppose to be a 1st boot script in the OS that is waiting to receive values, how or where do I find this script in VyOS.

Thanks…

[0lzi]

Not sure if OVA would be the way to go, unless you can customise the OVA to inject a cloud-init, as that’s what would most likely be used to set up interfaces and addresses etc.

VyOS cloud-init — VyOS 1.5.x (circinus) documentation

[tryllz]

Thanks @0lzi

I’ll look into this, might be the way to do it..