REST API Provisioning a VM against a provider

Question
#1

Is there a way to provision a VM against a specific provider using the REST API? I dont see anything related to a provider in the provision_requests API docs

#2

Hi,

In MIQ, you only need to specify a template from which your new VM is provisioned, because a template is always associated with exactly one provider.

For instance, let’s say you have two vmware providers within a single MIQ region, and the two providers both have an identical CentOS7 template.

Because one template (let’s call it A) is associated with one provider (provider 1) and the other template (B) with the other provider (2), they are treated as different templates even though VM images provisioned from them may be identical.

If you specify the template A when calling provision_request, your VM will be provisioned on the provider 1, and vice versa.

Hope this helps,

Ken

#3

Thanks for the answer @ksugawar

I figured it out:

---
- hosts: localhost
  tasks:
  - name: Clone template
    uri:
      url: "{{ manageiq.api_url }}/api/provision_requests"
      method: POST
      body_format: json
      body:
        version: '1.1'
        template_fields:
          name: "{{ template_name }}"
          request_type: template
        vm_fields:
          addr_mode: dhcp
          number_of_vms: "{{ count }}"
          vm_name: "{{ vm_name }}"
          provision_type: vmware
          vm_auto_start: "{{ autostart }}"
          retirement: 0
          retirement_warn: 604800
          vlan: VM Network
          disk_format: unchanged
          cpu_limit: -1
          memory_limit: -1
          number_of_sockets: 2
          cores_per_socket: 1
          cpu_reserve: 0
          vm_memory: "{{ memory }}"
          memory_reserve: 0
          network_adapters: 1
        requester:
          owner_first_name: Daniyal
          owner_last_name: Javed
          owner_email: daniyal.javed@foobar.ca
        tags: {}
        additional_values:
        ems_custom_attributes:
        miq_custom_attributes:
      validate_certs: no
      headers:
        X-Auth-Token: "{{ manageiq.api_token }}"
      return_content: yes
  status_code: 200
#4

Very helpful. Thank you!