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Ansible k3s on vms 1.2.0 and delegated_vm_install 2.0.3 released

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cloud-init

I prepared a few update releases of some ansible roles related to provision virtual machines with libvirt over the last weeks.

Mainly clean up releases and makes sure that everything works on different GNU/Linux distributions out of the box.

One “big” change is the removal of the dependency on the cloud-localds utility to provision virtual machines with cloud-init. This enables the usage of the roles on Linux distributions that don’t provide this utility.

Ansible-k3s-on-vms v1.2.0

An Ansible playbook to deploy virtual machines and deploy K3s.

https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-k3s-on-vms

ChangeLog

Added community.libvirt to requirements.yml

  • Added community.libvirt to requirements.yml
  • Added required Suse packages installation
  • Documentation update
  • This release removes the dependency on the cloud-locals utility. On the distributes that don’t provide the cloud-localds utility GNU xorriso is used.

stafwag.delegated_vm_install v2.0.3

An Ansible role to install a virtual machine with virt-install and cloud-init (Delegated).

https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-delegated_vm_install

ChangeLog

Gather facts on kvm hosts only once

  • Gather facts on kvm hosts only once
  • Corrected ansible-lint errors
  • Remove the cloud-localds requirement in README

stafwag.virt_install_vm v1.1.1

An Ansible role to install a libvirt virtual machine with virt-install and cloud-init. It “designed” to be flexible.

https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-virt_install_vm

ChangeLog

CleanUp Release

  • Corrected ansible-lint errors
  • Updated documentation
  • Avoid ansible error during check vm status check

stafwag.libvirt v2.0.0

An ansible role to install libvirt/KVM packages and enable the libvirtd service.

https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-libvirt

ChangeLog

Use general vars instead of tasks

  • Reorganized the role to use vars and package install install the packages
  • This version works from the Ansible version that is included in Ubuntu 24.x
  • Corrected ansible-lint errors

stafwag.cloud_localds v3.0.2

An ansible role to create cloud-init config disk images.

https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-cloud_localds

ChangeLog

Execute installation tasks only once

  • Added run_one: true to only execute the installation tasks only once.
  • Move “name: Set OS related variables” to main, to have the provider settings when the install phase isn’t executed e.g. With –skip-tags install.
  • Added apply tags install to support –tags install

stafwag.qemu_img v2.3.2

An ansible role create qemu images.

https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-qemu_img

ChangeLog

Enable run_once on installation tasks

  • Execute installation tasks only once to allow parallel execution of roles on the same host e.g. With delegate_to

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