ovaimporter

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OVA Importer

Import a local or remote OVA

Usage

Build

Build the binary by running make build

Run

ovaimporter return a response to stdout, and a file (defaults to ./response.json) in json format.

ovaimporter 
  --ova https://storage.googleapis.com/capv-images/release/v1.17.3/ubuntu-1804-kube-v1.17.3.ova \
  --network VM_Net \
  --datacenter Datacenter-01 \
  --datastore Datastore-01 \
  --url 10.96.160.151 \
  --user administrator@vsphere.local \
  --password 'secret'

# Environment variables can be used in place of the CLI flags
OVAIMPORTER_URL=vcenter.example.org \
OVAIMPORTER_USER=myuser \
OVAIMPORTER_PASSWORD=secret \
OVAIMPORTER_OVA=https://storage.googleapis.com/capv-images/release/v1.17.3/ubuntu-1804-kube-v1.17.3.ova \
OVAIMPORTER_DATACENTER=dc1 \
OVAIMPORTER_DATASTORE=ds1 \
OVAIMPORTER_NETWORK=VM_Net \
ovaimporter

Response Object

For more details on the data types, the go importerResponse struct can be found here: cmd/response.go

{
  "alreadyExists": false,
  "errorMsg": "",
  "level": "",
  "msg": "",
  "name": "",
  "responseFile": "",
  "success": true,
  "time": ""
}

Container Image

A container image is available at docker pull ghcr.io/jacobweinstock/ovaimporter:latest

USAGE

Build the container image locally with make build

# using cli flags
docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD}/response.json:/response.json ghcr.io/jacobweinstock/ovaimporter \
  --url 10.96.160.151 \
  --user admin \
  --password 'secret' \  
  --ova https://storage.googleapis.com/capv-images/release/v1.17.3/ubuntu-1804-kube-v1.17.3.ova \
  --datacenter DC01 \
  --datastore DS01 \
  --network VM_Net

# using env vars
docker run -it --rm \
  -e OVAIMPORTER_URL=10.96.160.151 \
  -e OVAIMPORTER_USER=admin \
  -e OVAIMPORTER_PASSWORD='secret' \
  -e OVAIMPORTER_OVA=https://storage.googleapis.com/capv-images/release/v1.17.3/ubuntu-1804-kube-v1.17.3.ova \
  -e OVAIMPORTER_DATACENTER=Datacenter-01 \
  -e OVAIMPORTER_DATASTORE=Datastore-01 \
  -e OVAIMPORTER_NETWORK=VM_Net \
  -v ${PWD}/response.json:/response.json \
  ghcr.io/jacobweinstock/ovaimporter