VMware vSphere – Automating VM Deployment with Ansible and GitLab CI/CD – Part 1

Automating the lifecycle of virtual machines is one of the core benefits of modern infrastructure management. Instead of manually creating and configuring VMs through the vSphere client, we can leverage tools like Ansible combined with GitLab CI/CD to define everything as code and execute it automatically. By integrating Ansible playbooks into a GitLab pipeline, we can standardize VM deployment, make it repeatable, and reduce the time needed to provision new