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

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.