Out of the box Ansible Tower 3.1.2 does not come with the Red Hat Virtualization 4.0 provider. You will find the instructions here to get it working:
Step 1: SSH into the ansible tower
Step 2: Install ovirt-engine-sdk-python
Step 3: cd into /opt/rh and get the ovirt.ini file
[root@towerldo ~]# wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ldomb/rhv4-for-tower/master/ovirt.ini
Step 4: Edit the values in /opt/rh/ovirt.ini with your correct RHV4 url (the path after your FQDN is “ovirt-engine/api” and password for the admin user
# Ansible RHV ini file
#
# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with Ansible. If not, see .
# Author: Laurent Domb based on Josha Inglis ovirt.ini for ovirt 3.6 and the gce.ini by Eric Johnson
[ovirt]
# ovirt Service Account configuration information can be stored in the
# libcloud ‘secrets.py’ file. Ideally, the ‘secrets.py’ file will already
# exist in your PYTHONPATH and be picked up automatically with an import
# statement in the inventory script. However, you can specify an absolute
# path to the secrets.py file with ‘libcloud_secrets’ parameter.
ovirt_api_secrets =
# If you are not going to use a ‘secrets.py’ file, you can set the necessary
# authorization parameters here.
ovirt_url = https://rhv.local.domb.com/ovirt-engine/api
ovirt_username = admin@internal
ovirt_password = iloveopensource
Step 5. Now login into ansible tower as privileged user who is allowed to add an inventory.
Step 6. Got to Settings
Inventory Scripts
And click on “Create a new custom inventory”
Step 7. Add a name
Step 8. For the Custom Script get the https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ldomb/rhv4-for-tower/master/ovirt.py and paste the content into the field
and click save
Step 9. click on inventories
and add
Step 10. In new inventory enter a name for you new RHV4 inventory
and hit save
You will get redirected to the groups page where you create new group (+ ADD GROUP).
Step 11. For inventory choose custom script and add the script we added in step 7 under Custom Inventory Script
Step 12. Once saved go back to the inventories tab and click on you new inventory
Step 13. You can new sync your new inventory by pressing the sync button
Step 14. If everything goes well you should see something like
