Provisioning VM role

playbooks/provision_vm/manage_vm.yml

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+---
+- name: Playbook to provision a new VM on VMware
+  hosts: all
+  gather_facts: false
+  roles:
+    - role: redhat_cop.vmware_ops.provision_vm
+      vars:
+        clone_from_template: false
+        clone_from_vm: false

playbooks/provision_vm/provisioning_vm_from_template.yml

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+---
+- name: Playbook to provision a new VM from template on VMware
+  hosts: all
+  gather_facts: false
+  roles:
+    - role: redhat_cop.vmware_ops.provision_vm
+      vars:
+        clone_from_template: true
+        clone_from_vm: false

playbooks/provision_vm/provisioning_vm_from_vm.yml

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+---
+- name: Playbook to provision a new VM from an existing VM on VMware
+  hosts: all
+  gather_facts: false
+  roles:
+    - role: redhat_cop.vmware_ops.provision_vm
+      vars:
+        clone_from_template: false
+        clone_from_vm: true
+

roles/create_vm_template/README.md

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+Provision virtual machine
+================
+
+A role to provision a virtual machine, create associated resources if they don’t exist (subnets, vCPU, memory configuration, storage configuration, etc)
+This includes cloning and building from VM templates
+Boot a VM from these types:
+* Windows Server
+* RHEL8
+* RHEL9
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+vCenter logged in permission
+
+Role Variables
+--------------
+
+* **vcenter_hostname** (str): (Required) 
+* **vcenter_username** (str): (Required) 
+* **vcenter_password** (str): (Required) 
+* **vcenter_validate_certs** (str): (Required) 
+* **provision_virtual_machine_operation** (str): (Required) Operation to perform. Valid values are:
+    clone_an_existing_vm, clone_template_to_template, clone_vm_to_template, create_new_vm, create_vm_from_template,
+    deploy_from_template.
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+N/A
+
+Example Playbook
+----------------
+
+All the variables defined in section [Role Variables](#role-variables) can be defined inside the ``vars.yml`` file.
+
+Create a ``playbook.yml`` file like this:
+
+```
+---
+- hosts: localhost
+  gather_facts: true
+
+  tasks:
+    - name: Provision a VM 
+      ansible.builtin.import_role:
+        name: cloud.vmware_ops.provision_virtual_machine
+      vars:
+        aa: "{{ }}"
+```
+
+Run the playbook:
+
+```shell
+ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e "@vars.yml"
+```
+
+License
+-------
+
+GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
+
+See [LICENCE](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cloud.vmware_ops/blob/main/LICENSE) to see the full text.
+
+Author Information
+------------------
+
+- ??

roles/create_vm_template/defaults/main.yml

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+---

roles/create_vm_template/tasks/main.yml

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+---
+# vm name or vm template
+- name: Create VM or template
+  ansible.builtin.include_tasks: "clone_vm_to_template.yml"
+