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There doesn't seem to be much on GitHub. I'm hoping some folks would be willing to share their playbooks here.

In the Jun 3rd newsletter, Gostev mentioned that Veeam had some complex Ansible automation built out. I would love to see this made available to the public.
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I did get some requests so now someone is cleaning up the code to remove customer-specific stuff, as soon as that is done we will publish them!
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Was there any output from this?
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I haven't seen anything on github. I was going to write my own playbooks using the URI module and the Veeam API, however, it doesn't seem like the API has full functionality. It looks like I will have to resort to writing a custom ansible module in Powershell if I want to leverage ansible for automating Veeam.
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Can I ask why Ansible is the configuration management tool of choice?

I have been working on a CHEF cookbook that is now published and available. The reason why we chose CHEF was based on better supportability for Windows. The majority of Veeam servers live on windows so that’s why we went that way.

Also what tasks are you looking to automate with Ansible?
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Regarding CHEF vs Ansible. For me, I already have Anisble deployed. I would rather not stand up another configuration management tool. I'm looking to add backup management to my existing Ansible structure.

I don't recall seeing anything released from Veeam regarding Ansible. Did I just miss it? Or, has this not yet been released?
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Correct, currently the ansible part hasn’t been released yet.
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Is there a status update concerning Ansible playbooks to automate Veeam? I'm also interested in this topic. The current main reason is the deployment of Linux agents, but if other topics like creating new backup jobs, check if the configuration of backup jobs is correct, adding vsphere tags to a VM etc are covered already, I don't have to do it by myself.

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Sandsturm,

The ability to use Ansible to Install and Configure Veeam Agent for linux on Debian and CentOS. https://github.com/sbaerlocher/ansible.veeam-agent this has not been created by Veeam but by https://twitter.com/sbaerlocher

Also one of our Veeam Vanguards has also created a playbook for the Veeam Backup & Replication unattended installation, and I believe he has further plans here to add other functionality - https://mycloudrevolution.com/en/2019/0 ... h-ansible/

Markus details can be found here as well as on his site. Again this Ansible Playbook was not created by Veeam. https://twitter.com/vMarkus_K/
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Hi,

Thanks for sharing my blog post Michael! Another post about Veeam Ansible modules for deeper integration is almost ready for publication.

In the meantime you can check the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/mycloudrevolution/Anisble-Veeam
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Blog post is published.

Ansible Veeam Modules Preview
https://mycloudrevolution.com/en/2019/0 ... s-preview/
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To get this ball rolling again after almost 3 years... ;-)

We're starting a relatively big IT Continuity Management Restore project right now, where we're going to automate the restore of many many systems from Backup in the aftermath of a disaster.
The whole restore process will be orchestrated by Ansible as we also have AIX LPARS on POWER and physical Windows boxes to be restored.
As most of the infrastructure is now virtualized, a good part of the restores are going to be VM restores from our Veeam infrastructure.
Has anyone already written some Ansible modules for such a case (restores of lots and lots of VMs in the shortest amount of time)?
If not, there is a good chance that we will be writing those modules and maybe share them via Ansible Automation Hub and most likely Ansible Galaxy.
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Hi Christian,

Sounds like an interesting project. I look forward to your contribution to the community. Do you plan to leverage the Veeam Ent. Manager API or directly access VBR server?

However, my experience shows that in such a case it is better to rely on a solution like VBO or VMware SRM. What is your DR location?
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