Automate vSphere OVA Appliance Deployments Using Ansible playbook, Ansible provides the vmware_deploy_ovf module that can be used to deploy OVA/OVF appliances.
You will need to have the following packages installed on your Machine:
- ansible>=2.8.0
- pyvmomi>=6.7.1.2018.12
- Edit deploy_ova.yml playbook to add your VMware vSphere clinet details and path of your OVA file.
- To deploy the appliance, run the playbook by invoking the ansible-playbook command. ansible-playbook deploy_ova.yml