# Provision OpenNebula VMs using ansible
**URL:** https://forum.opennebula.io/t/provision-opennebula-vms-using-ansible/4896
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/provision-opennebula-vms-using-ansible/4896 "2017-09-06T19:24:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@bnold](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/bnold)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/provision-opennebula-vms-using-ansible/4896/1 "2017-09-06T19:24:40Z")
Please, describe the problem here and provide additional information below (if applicable) …
Use ansible to provision vms in Opennebula
**Versions of the related components and OS (frontend, hypervisors, VMs):**
The vms will be Centos 7.2
Any suggestions?
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### Author:  [@VURoland](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/VURoland)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/provision-opennebula-vms-using-ansible/4896/2 "2017-09-07T18:17:31Z")
Have you already seen this to get started?
(EDIT: slides!) [https://www.slideshare.net/opennebula/opennebulaconf2017us-configuration-management-with-opennebula-and-ansible-by-jaime-melis-opennebula](https://www.slideshare.net/opennebula/opennebulaconf2017us-configuration-management-with-opennebula-and-ansible-by-jaime-melis-opennebula)
basically, you’re asking “how to provision servers with ansible” - when they are deployed, opennebula is out of the equation.
Opennebula just deploys them, with a ansible user and ssh key if you want (defined in context), and the provisioning part is done with the playbooks you define using ansible. If you get opennebula to deploy a VM with the ansible user and key, all you need to do is apply your playbooks
hope this helps!
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### Author:  [@marcindulak](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/marcindulak)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/provision-opennebula-vms-using-ansible/4896/3 "2017-09-07T20:15:40Z")
“If you get opennebula to deploy a VM with the ansible user and key, all you need to do is apply your playbooks” - such approach is limited, compared to existing ansible modules for **actual** deployments of VMs on AWS [http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/guide\_aws.html](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/guide_aws.html) and saltstack opennebula module [https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/clouds/all/salt.cloud.clouds.opennebula.html](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/clouds/all/salt.cloud.clouds.opennebula.html) (mentioned in [https://forum.opennebula.io/t/automate-vm-creation-with-configurations-with-a-click-of-a-button/](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/automate-vm-creation-with-configurations-with-a-click-of-a-button/))
When recording talks in the future please make sure the slides are readable.
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### Author:  [@Amit\_Kumar](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/Amit_Kumar)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/provision-opennebula-vms-using-ansible/4896/4 "2018-09-01T22:48:49Z")
Hi,
is anyone used ansible to provision vm’s in opennebula?
Ansible 2.6 is having opennebula module, but I am not sure how to use it.
where to provide opennebula details like, username, password, url etc… please help.
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### Author:  [@feldsam](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/feldsam)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/provision-opennebula-vms-using-ansible/4896/5 "2018-09-03T13:03:03Z")
Just use google and look at documentation.
[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/modules/one\_vm\_module.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/modules/one_vm_module.html)
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### Author:  [@Amit\_Kumar](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/Amit_Kumar)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/provision-opennebula-vms-using-ansible/4896/7 "2018-09-14T13:16:56Z")
Thanks… I am able to do it now…
requirement “python-oca” is supposed to be installed on opennebula host