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# vSphere cloud provider
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Kubespray can be deployed with vSphere as Cloud provider. This feature supports
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- Volumes
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- Persistent Volumes
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- Storage Classes and provisioning of volumes.
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- vSphere Storage Policy Based Management for Containers orchestrated by Kubernetes.
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## Prerequisites
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You need at first to configure your vSphere environment by following the [official documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/vsphere/#vsphere-cloud-provider).
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After this step you should have:
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- UUID activated for each VM where Kubernetes will be deployed
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- A vSphere account with required privileges
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## Kubespray configuration
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First you must define the cloud provider in `inventory/sample/group_vars/all.yml` and set it to `vsphere`.
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```yml
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cloud_provider: vsphere
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```
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Then, in the same file, you need to declare your vCenter credential following the description below.
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| Variable | Required | Type | Choices | Default | Comment |
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|------------------------------|----------|---------|----------------------------|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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| vsphere_vcenter_ip | TRUE | string | | | IP/URL of the vCenter |
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| vsphere_vcenter_port | TRUE | integer | | | Port of the vCenter API. Commonly 443 |
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| vsphere_insecure | TRUE | integer | 1, 0 | | set to 1 if the host above uses a self-signed cert |
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| vsphere_user | TRUE | string | | | User name for vCenter with required privileges |
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| vsphere_password | TRUE | string | | | Password for vCenter |
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| vsphere_datacenter | TRUE | string | | | Datacenter name to use |
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| vsphere_datastore | TRUE | string | | | Datastore name to use |
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| vsphere_working_dir | TRUE | string | | | Working directory from the view "VMs and template" in the vCenter where VM are placed |
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| vsphere_scsi_controller_type | TRUE | string | buslogic, pvscsi, parallel | pvscsi | SCSI controller name. Commonly "pvscsi". |
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| vsphere_vm_uuid | FALSE | string | | | VM Instance UUID of virtual machine that host K8s master. Can be retrieved from instanceUuid property in VmConfigInfo, or as vc.uuid in VMX file or in `/sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial` (Optional, only used for Kubernetes <= 1.9.2) |
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| vsphere_public_network | FALSE | string | | Blank | Name of the network the VMs are joined to |
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| vsphere_resource_pool | FALSE | string | | Blank | Name of the Resource pool where the VMs are located (Optional, only used for Kubernetes >= 1.9.2) |
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Example configuration
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```yml
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vsphere_vcenter_ip: "myvcenter.domain.com"
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vsphere_vcenter_port: 443
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vsphere_insecure: 1
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vsphere_user: "k8s@vsphere.local"
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vsphere_password: "K8s_admin"
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vsphere_datacenter: "DATACENTER_name"
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vsphere_datastore: "DATASTORE_name"
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vsphere_working_dir: "Docker_hosts"
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vsphere_scsi_controller_type: "pvscsi"
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vsphere_resource_pool: "K8s-Pool"
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```
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## Deployment
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Once the configuration is set, you can execute the playbook again to apply the new configuration
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```
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cd kubespray
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ansible-playbook -i inventory/sample/hosts.ini -b -v cluster.yml
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```
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You'll find some useful examples [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/examples/tree/master/staging/volumes/vsphere) to test your configuration.
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