Vagrant provider for VMware vCloud Director®

Please note that this software is still Alpha/Beta quality and is not recommended for production usage.

We have a wide array of boxes available at Vagrant Cloud you can use them directly or you can roll your own as you please, make sure to install VMware tools in it.

Starting from version 0.4.2, this plugin supports the universal vmware_ovf box format, that is 100% portable between vagrant-vcloud, vagrant-vcenter and vagrant-vcloudair, no more double boxes!.

If you're unsure about what are the correct network settings for your Vagrantfile make sure to check out the Network Deployment Options wiki page.

Check the full releases changelog here

Install

Latest version can be installed by running the following command:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vcloud

Vagrant will download all the required gems during the installation process.

After the install has completed a vagrant up --provider=vcloud will trigger the newly installed provider.

Upgrade

If you already have vagrant-vcloud installed you can update to the latest version available by issuing:

vagrant plugin update vagrant-vcloud

Vagrant will take care of the upgrade process.

Configuration

Here's a sample Multi-VM Vagrantfile, please note that vcloud.vdc_edge_gateway and vcloud.vdc_edge_gateway_ip are required when you cannot access vcloud.vdc_network_name directly and there's an Organization Edge between your workstation and the vCloud Network.

vapp = {
  name: 'My vApp name',
  org_name: 'OrganizationName',
  orgvdc_name: 'vDC_Name',
  orgvdccatalog_name: 'Vagrant',
  metadata: [ [ 'key', 'value' ] ],
  advanced_networking: true,
  networks: {
    org: [ 'Org_VDC_Network' ],
    vapp: [
      {
        name: 'MyNetwork',
        ip_subnet: '10.10.10.10/255.255.255.0'
      }
    ]
  },
  ovf_properties: {
    'test-variable' => 'true'
  }
}

nodes = [
  {
    hostname: 'web-vm',
    box: 'gosddc/precise32',
    memory: 512,
    cpus: 1,
    nested_hypervisor: false,
    add_hdds: [ 1024 ],
    power_on: true,
    ssh_enable: true,
    sync_enable: true,
    metadata: [ [ 'key', 'value' ] ],
    nics: [
      type: :vmxnet3,
      connected: true,
      network: "vApp netowrk",
      primary: true,
      ip_mode: "static",
      ip: "10.10.10.1",
      mac: "00:50:56:00:00:01"
    ],
    enable_guest_customization: true,
    guest_customization_script: 'touch /sample.file'
  },
  { hostname: 'ssh-vm', box: 'gosddc/precise32' },
  { hostname: 'sql-vm', box: 'gosddc/precise32' },
  { hostname: 'app-vm', box: 'gosddc/precise32' }
]

Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|

  # vCloud Director provider settings
  config.vm.provider :vcloud do |vcloud|

    vcloud.hostname = 'https://my.cloudprovider.com'
    vcloud.username = 'MyUserName'
    vcloud.password = 'MySup3rS3cr3tPassw0rd!'

    vcloud.vapp_prefix = 'multibox-sample'

    vcloud.org_name = vapp[:org_name]
    vcloud.vdc_name = vapp[:orgvdc_name]
    vcloud.catalog_name = vapp[:orgvdccatalog_name]

    vcloud.vapp_name = vapp[:name]
    vcloud.metadata_vapp = vapp[:metadata]
    vcloud.auto_yes_for_upload = vapp[:auto_yes_for_upload]

    vcloud.advanced_network = vapp[:advanced_networking]
    if vapp[:advanced_networking]
      vcloud.networks = vapp[:networks]
    else
      vcloud.ip_subnet = '172.16.32.125/255.255.255.240'
      vcloud.vdc_network_name = 'MyNetwork'
      vcloud.vdc_edge_gateway = 'MyOrgEdgeGateway'
      vcloud.vdc_edge_gateway_ip = '10.10.10.10'
      end
  end

  nodes.each do |node|
    config.vm.define node[:hostname] do |node_config|
      node_config.vm.box = node[:box]
      node_config.vm.hostname = node[:hostname]
      node_config.vm.box_url = node[:box_url]
      if vapp[:advanced_networking]
        node_config.vm.provider :vcloud do |pro|
          pro.memory = node[:memory]
          pro.cpus = node[:cpus]
          pro.add_hdds = node[:add_hdds]
          pro.nics = node[:nics]
          pro.ssh_enabled = node[:ssh_enabled]
          pro.sync_enabled = node[:sync_enabled]
          pro.power_on = node[:power_on]
          pro.metadata_vm = node[:metadata]
          pro.nested_hypervisor = node[:nested_hypervisor]
          pro.enable_guest_customization = node[:enable_guest_customization]
          pro.guest_customization_script = node[:guest_customization_script]
          if vapp[:ovf_properties]
            pro.ovf_properties = vapp[:ovf_properties]
          end
        end
        node_config.vm.network :public_network
      else
        node_config.vm.network :forwarded_port,
                               guest: 80,
                               host: 8080,
                               auto_correct: true
      end
      # node_config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
      #   puppet.manifests_path = 'puppet/manifests'
      #   puppet.manifest_file = 'site.pp'
      #   puppet.module_path = 'puppet/modules'
      # end
    end
  end
end

For additional documentation on network setups with vCloud Director, check the Network Deployment Options Wiki page

Contribute

What is still missing:

• TEST SUITES! (working on that).
• Speed, the code is definitely not optimized.
• Permission checks, make sure you have at least Catalog Admin privileges if you want to upload boxes to vCloud.
• Thorough testing.
• Error checking is absymal.
• Some spaghetti code here and there.
• Bugs, bugs and BUGS!.