Add vApp xml parse logic

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/roles/network/tasks/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+- name: Create netplan configuration file
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: netplan.j2
+    dest: /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml
+- name: Apply netplan configuration
+  ansible.builtin.shell:
+    cmd: netplan apply

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/roles/network/templates/netplan.j2

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+network:
+  version: 2
+  ethernets:
+    ens192:
+      addresses:
+      - {{ ovfproperties['guestinfo.ipaddress'] }}/{{ ovfproperties['guestinfo.prefixlength']}}
+      gateway4: {{ ovfproperties['guestinfo.gateway'] }}
+      nameservers:
+        addresses:
+        - {{ ovfproperties['guestinfo.dnsserver'] }}

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/roles/vapp/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,44 +1,20 @@
-- name: Store current vApp configuration
+- name: Store current ovfEnvironment
   ansible.builtin.shell:
     cmd: vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.ovfEnv"
   register: ovfenv
-- name: DEBUG variable contents
+- name: Parse XML for vApp properties
-  ansible.builtin.debug:
-    ovfenv
-- name: Parse XML into variables
   community.general.xml:
-    xmlstring: "{{ ovfEnv }}"
+    xmlstring: "{{ ovfenv.stdout }}"
     namespaces:
-      oe: http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/environment/1
+      ns: http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/environment/1
-    xpath: /Environment/PropertySection/Property
+    xpath: /ns:Environment/ns:PropertySection/ns:Property
-    content: oe:key
+    content: attribute
-
+  register: ovfenv
-
+- name: Assign vApp properties to dictionary
-# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
-# <Environment
+    ovfproperties: >-
-#      xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/environment/1"
+      {{ ovfproperties | default({}) |
-#      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+      combine({((item.values() | list)[0].values() | list)[0]:
-#      xmlns:oe="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/environment/1"
+      ((item.values() | list)[0].values() | list)[1]})
-#      xmlns:ve="http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovfenv"
+      }}
-#      oe:id=""
+  loop: "{{ ovfenv.matches }}"
-#      ve:vCenterId="vm-1171">
-#    <PlatformSection>
-#       <Kind>VMware ESXi</Kind>
-#       <Version>7.0.1</Version>
-#       <Vendor>VMware, Inc.</Vendor>
-#       <Locale>en</Locale>
-#    </PlatformSection>
-#    <PropertySection>
-#          <Property oe:key="deployment.type" oe:value="ubuntu-small"/>
-#          <Property oe:key="guestinfo.dnsserver" oe:value="1.1.1.1"/>
-#          <Property oe:key="guestinfo.gateway" oe:value="10.0.0.1"/>
-#          <Property oe:key="guestinfo.hostname" oe:value="SRV01"/>
-#          <Property oe:key="guestinfo.ipaddress" oe:value="10.0.0.84"/>
-#          <Property oe:key="guestinfo.ntpserver" oe:value="0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org,2.pool.ntp.org"/>
-#          <Property oe:key="guestinfo.prefixlength" oe:value="24"/>
-#          <Property oe:key="guestinfo.rootpw" oe:value=""/>
-#    </PropertySection>
-#    <ve:EthernetAdapterSection>
-#       <ve:Adapter ve:mac="00:50:56:8a:09:08" ve:network="Staging" ve:unitNumber="7"/>
-#    </ve:EthernetAdapterSection>
-# </Environment>

ansible/roles/firstboot/templates/firstboot.j2

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# FOO
+# Apply firstboot configuration w/ ansible
+ansible-playbook /opt/firstboot/ansible/playbook.yml

ansible/roles/os/vars/main.yml

@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ packages:
   - python3-pip
   - python3-setuptools
   - python3-wheel
-  # (libxml2-utils) Dependency for xmllint
-  - libxml2-utils
 
 pip_packages:
   - pip
   - ansible-core
+  - lxml