Recently, I have one project requirement where i have to use vmware rest api and ansible to take the vcsa backup. In this blog we will first explore vcsa apiexplorer and traverse to rest api for backup
we need to open: https:<vcsa fqdn or ip>/apiexplorer
Api explore has drop down for these all option
Select the appliance from the drop down and traverse to the backup job
explore POST /appliance/recover/backup/job . It will have parameter values
These are the option we will be using while coding in ansible. parts option you can get from vcsa vami console.
After exploring api, its time to look into ansible. First part would be login to vcsa apiexplore. This require authentication.
As explain above for backup request body, same way for ansible we need write json file
Now we need to write the backup task in ansible yaml file
So backup.yaml will contain login and backup task. Backup task will be calling json file , which contain vcsa backup config info.