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🧰 Morpheus + Ansible Integration (Standalone Mode) for VM Provisioning (On-Prem & Cloud)

This guide walks you through setting up Morpheus 8 to provision virtual machines both on-prem (vSphere, KVM, Hyper-V) and in the cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.), and to automatically configure them using Ansible (Standalone mode) running from the Morpheus appliance.

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🧱 1. Prepare Base VM Template

Ensure your VM image (on-prem or cloud) includes:

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Building a RHEL 9 ISO image using Packer 1.12 on RHEL 8 requires multiple steps. This guide will take you from installing dependencies to creating the ISO with Packer.


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Step 1: Install Required Packages

Ensure your RHEL 8 system has the necessary tools installed.

# Enable required repositories

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1. Retrieve Security Groups via AWS CLI Get the Security Groups Attached to an Instance Run:

aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-id $(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id) --query "Reservations[].Instances[].SecurityGroups" --output json

This will return something like:

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The issue you're encountering is likely due to the use of the MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme. MBR has a partition size limitation of 2TB. If you have disks larger than 2TB and you want to use the entire space in a single partition, you should use the GPT (GUID Partition Table) partitioning scheme instead of MBR.

To use the full capacity of a 3TB (or larger) disk on RHEL6, you'd want to use the GPT format. Here's how you can create a GPT partition:

1. Backup any data: Before making any changes to the disk, ensure you've backed up any data on it.

2. Install gdisk: The gdisk utility is a version of fdisk for GPT. It might not be installed by default:

bash

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Oracle Linux 8 VM Templating Guide in VMware

Reset Hostname

echo "localhost" > /etc/hostname

Clear Network Configuration

Delete specific network manager settings.

nmcli connection delete <connection_name>

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Creating a VM Template on VMware vSphere 7

Prerequisites

• ISO Images: Ensure you have the ISO images for RHEL9 and OEL9 downloaded.
• vSphere Client: Have the vSphere Client open and connected to your vCenter or ESXi host.

1. Prepare the ISO Image

• Upload the RHEL9 and OEL9 ISOs to a datastore accessible by the ESXi hosts.

2. Create a New Virtual Machine

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- name: Manage iptables on RHEL6 or OEL6
  hosts: your_target_hosts  # You need to replace this with your actual target host group or host.
  become: true
  gather_facts: true  # This is required to collect facts about the target host.

  tasks:
    - name: Check if the system is RHEL6 or OEL6
      assert:
        that:

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Building VMs using Ansible and the VMware API can be a streamlined process, but it does come with some considerations. Here's a more detailed guide:

Ansible and VMware

You'll want to make use of the Ansible vmware_guest module, which can create, clone, or reconfigure VMware VMs through vCenter.

Approach:

1. Inventory:

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Python version:

To use this script, you'll need to replace your_company_name with the name of the company you're searching for, and your_github_api_token with a valid GitHub API token that has the necessary permissions to access user data. You can run the script from the command line or in a Python development environment, and it will print a list of usernames associated with the specified company on GitHub.

To use this script with the company_name argument, you can run the command like this:

python github_users.py -c teslamotors

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Project Name

The project [insert project name] is a [insert brief description of what the project does]. The project is [insert why it's useful or entertaining].

Prerequisites

Before using the project, please ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

• Operating System: [insert supported OS]
• Software: [insert any software or dependencies required]
• Additional Information: [insert any other important information required to run the project]

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