In the last post I proved the flow locally: Ansible talks to vCenter, clones from a template, and the VM comes up with our settings. That was the “manual gear.” Now I want the “automatic gear”—a GitLab pipeline that runs the same steps for me, consistently, from any commit. My goals are simple: keep secrets […]
VMware vSphere – Automating VM Deployment with Ansible and GitLab CI/CD – Part 3 Read Post »
In this post we move from lab setup to hands-on automation. The goal is to provision virtual machines on vSphere automatically by combining Ansible playbooks with a GitLab CI/CD pipeline. Everything lives as code in a Git repository: VM definitions, playbooks, and the pipeline that runs them. With a single commit, GitLab triggers Ansible, which
VMware vSphere – Automating VM Deployment with Ansible and GitLab CI/CD – Part 2 Read Post »
A few months ago, when I first came across a project where Ansible and GitLab CI/CD were used to automate VM deployments in VMware vCenter, I wasn’t directly responsible for writing the playbooks. My role was more on the VMware side — managing vCenter, handling ESXi administration, and preparing the YAML host files that Ansible
VMware vSphere – Automating VM Deployment with Ansible and GitLab CI/CD – Part 1 Read Post »