vmware_deploy_ovf: add username and password for url

[mbx64]

SUMMARY

The vmware_deploy_ovf module offers a possibility to load an OVA file from url. It would be helpful to be able to define url_username, url_password for HTTP basic auth and maybe also url_validate_certs to control certificate validation. Currently, it is not possible to skip cert validation or to use basic auth for OVA files on a webserver.

A possible workaround by defining username and password in the URL (e. g. https://username:password@webserver.tld/my.ova) does not work. A regex seems to fail inside the module.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

vmware_deploy_ovf

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Example usage:

- community.vmware.vmware_deploy_ovf:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    url: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/release/ubuntu-16.04-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova
    url_username: username
    url_password: password
    url_validate_certs: true
    wait_for_ip_address: true
  delegate_to: localhost

[mariolenz]

I'm sorry, but my priority ATM is to make the collection work with the upcoming ansible-core 2.19 release (#2388 and #2391).

It turns out that this is harder than I originally expected. Please bear wit me 🙏