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