How to configure the vmware_rest collection¶

Introduction
Environment variables
Module parameters
Ignore SSL certificate error

Introduction ¶

The vcenter_rest modules need to be authenticated. There are two different

Environment variables ¶

Note

This solution requires that you call the modules from the local machine.

You need to export some environment variables in your shell before you call the modules.

$ export VMWARE_HOST=vcenter.test
$ export VMWARE_USER=myvcenter-user
$ export VMWARE_password=mypassword
$ ansible-playbook my-playbook.yaml

Module parameters ¶

All the vcenter_rest modules accept the following arguments:

vcenter_host
vcenter_username
vcenter_password

Ignore SSL certificate error ¶

It’s common to run a test environment without a proper SSL certificate configuration.

To ignore the SSL error, you can use the vcenter_validate_certs: no argument or export VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS=no to set the environment variable.