Prerequisites
Ansible Tower
- Organisation Admin and an SSH User are required for dynamic inventories.
Further detail can be found in the Ansible Tower Prerequisites
vRA
- vRA 7.6 Enterprise
- The following should be configured in vRA, and there should be at least one functional blueprint before starting:
- vRA 7.6 Tenant
- vCenter Endpoint(s)
- Compute Resource
- Reservation
- If vRA is configured in a distributed deployment, load balancing must be configured according to VMware documented best practices.
vRO
If using an external vRO, test the vRO configured in vRA
- Login to the vRA tenant
- Click on the Administration tab > vRO Configuration > Server Configuration
- Make sure Use an external Orchestrator server radio button is selected
- If using “Basic” auth, enter appropriate credentials
- Click Test Connection
- If the connection is successful, click OK and accept the certificate.
DNS
- DNS Resolution and Functionality
- Ansible Tower will perform hostname resolution when attempting to run playbooks.
- You must have a solution in place prior to the implementation of this module that creates and deletes DNS entries during the build and deprovision phases of your virtual machines in vRA.
Consideration: The SovLabs vRA Extensibility Modules are fully compatible with the Ansible Tower Plug-in for vRA CM Framework and it provides out of the box DNS integrations for the most commonly used DNS providers. For a full list click here.