Remove debugging;Sanitize hypervisor username;Traefik /data volume permission fix #2;Specify kubeconfig x3

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/bootstrap/roles/workloadcluster/tasks/clusterapi.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+- block:
+
+    - name: Generate vCenter API token
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://{{ vapp['hv.fqdn'] }}/api/session
+        method: POST
+        headers:
+          Authorization: Basic {{ ( vapp['hv.username'] ~ ':' ~ vapp['hv.password'] ) | b64encode }}
+      register: vcenterapi_token
+
+    - name: Retrieve vCenter API session details
+      ansible.builtin.uri:
+        url: https://{{ vapp['hv.fqdn'] }}/api/session
+        method: GET
+        headers:
+          vmware-api-session-id: "{{ vcenter_api_token.json }}"
+      register: vcenter_session
+
+  module_defaults:
+    ansible.builtin.uri:
+      validate_certs: no
+      status_code: [200, 201]
+      body_format: json
+
 - name: Configure clusterctl
   ansible.builtin.template:
     src: clusterctl.j2
@@ -12,7 +36,7 @@
       hv:
         fqdn: "{{ vapp['hv.fqdn'] }}"
         tlsthumbprint: "{{ tls_thumbprint.stdout }}"
-        username: "{{ vapp['hv.username'] }}"
+        username: "{{ vcenter_session.json.user }}"
         password: "{{ vapp['hv.password'] }}"
         datacenter: "{{ vcenter_info.datacenter }}"
         datastore: "{{ vcenter_info.datastore }}"

ansible/roles/firstboot/files/ansible_payload/upgrade/roles/metacluster/tasks/storage.yml

@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
     state: patched
     definition: |
       spec:
-        numberOfReplicas: {{ lookup('kubernetes.core.k8s', kind='node') | length | int }}
-  loop: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.k8s', api_version='longhorn.io/v1beta2', kind='volume', namespace='longhorn-system') }}"
+        numberOfReplicas: {{ lookup('kubernetes.core.k8s', kind='node', kubeconfig=(kubeconfig.path)) | length | int }}
+    kubeconfig: "{{ kubeconfig.path }}"
+  loop: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.k8s', api_version='longhorn.io/v1beta2', kind='volume', namespace='longhorn-system', kubeconfig=(kubeconfig.path)) }}"
   loop_control:
     label: "{{ item.metadata.name }}"

ansible/vars/metacluster.yml

@@ -19,10 +19,7 @@ platform:
               - "--certificatesResolvers.stepca.acme.storage=/data/acme.json"
               - "--certificatesResolvers.stepca.acme.tlsChallenge=true"
               - "--certificatesresolvers.stepca.acme.certificatesduration=24"
-            globalArguments: []
-            ingressRoute:
-              dashboard:
-                enabled: false
+            deployment:
               initContainers:
                 - name: volume-permissions
                   image: busybox:1
@@ -30,6 +27,10 @@ platform:
                   volumeMounts:
                     - name: data
                       mountPath: /data
+            globalArguments: []
+            ingressRoute:
+              dashboard:
+                enabled: false
             persistence:
               enabled: true
             ports:

packer/build.pkr.hcl

@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@ build {
     vm_name = "${var.vm_name}-upgrade"
   }
 
-  provisioner "shell" {
-    inline = ["echo ${source.name}"]
-  }
-
   provisioner "ansible" {
     pause_before     = "2m30s"
 
@@ -36,10 +32,6 @@ build {
     ]
   }
 
-  provisioner "shell" {
-    inline = ["echo ${source.name}"]
-  }
-
   post-processor "shell-local" {
     inline = [
       "pwsh -command \"& scripts/Update-OvfConfiguration.ps1 \\",