Provide ability to assign vSphere tags when creating machines

[jmery]

vSphere tags allow users to associate metadata with vSphere objects including VMs. In many environments, the usage of tags is a mandatory requirement when creating VMs. Additionally, many users require a standard hostname format which precludes the ability to directly determine that a host was created by chef-provisioning-vsphere or kitchen-vsphere.

In the latter case, the ability to tag a VM with something like test-kitchen would provide a very easy method to identify temporary machines. This could be used to setup jobs that periodically delete these systems to clean up orphans, prevent VM sprawl, etc.

[jjasghar]

@jrgarcia any thoughts here? Can rbvmomi take tags?

[jrgarcia]

I'm pretty sure that RbVmomi doesn't support tagging yet. Let me check on that. I know that the vSphere Automation SDK handles tagging, but it's not available as a Gem or on GitHub yet (I'm working on that as we speak). I'll look at what it would take to add tagging to RbVmomi.

[juanxhos]

What about this https://code.vmware.com/apis/70/vsphere-automation-ruby ?

[jrgarcia]

@jcalonsoh That is available (I've just actually started working on that as my daily job), but as I stated above, it isn't available as a Gem or on GitHub. It's still available for use, but it is not as easily consumable as it should be.

[juanxhos]

true @jrgarcia

[jrgarcia]

I am working on it though! 😄 Soon...

[qubitrenegade]

Any further movement on this? This is a feature we'd definitely like to see.

Thanks!

[jjasghar]

@jrgarcia poke :)

[smackmybitsup]

I would also like to vote this up. We're using this for kitchen cookbook testing on our VMWare lab.