bifrost/releasenotes/notes/ansible-virt-0759a857daaacccf.yaml
Pavlo Shchelokovskyy f888748d4e Use Ansible to create test VMs
this patch moves logic for preparing libvirt environment
and creating test VMs out of bash script to Ansible tasks
using virt_* modules available since Ansible 2.0.

The only virsh command left is volume creation as Ansible still
lacks modules for libvirt volume management.

As a consequence, many variables hidden in the bash script are now
explicitly defined in defaults of 'bifrost-create-vm-nodes' role and can
be redefined by standard Ansible means.

Although the libvirt connection string can be redefined too,
it was not tested with any other than default value (local qemu connection).

Change-Id: Idaca6b5f502e0e2391af92651f30ab9dcd2fbb3b
Related-Bug: #1659876
2017-03-06 17:06:30 +02:00

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features:
- |
``bifrost-create-vm-nodes`` role now uses Ansible's virt modules to
create virtual machines for bifrost testing.
This supersedes the embedded bash script to create virtual machines.
As a result, all variables that were present in the bash script are
now available as default role variables and can be overridden by standard
Ansible means.
For backward compatibility, some of the variables still support the
use of shell variables, but this is deprecated and should be avoided.
deprecations:
- |
Relying on shell environment variables to set parameters for created
virtual nodes is deprecated and will be removed in the Queens release.
Any scripts relying on such behavior need to be changed to explicitly
pass these parameters as extra-vars to ansible-playbook invocations.