Puppet users - Feb 2013 - How to take a (VMWare) Virtual Machine's Snapshot using Puppet

Hi,
Here is the scenario:

I am on an ubuntu 12.04 host, and want to be able to run a puppet script on 
another ubuntu 12.04 and Centos 6.3 host, which are VMWare VM''s and be
able
to:

1. Start / Stop The VM
2. Take a snap Shot
3. delete the VM
4. make a FRESH copy of a BASELINE VM, and start it up

I only have ssh capability to the remote machines, but i can also run the 
ssh command via Jenkins ( Continuous Integration Server ) 

The search for this sort of capability leads me to :

The answers i found lead me towards using [perl api for VMware 
orchestration.][1] 


or [VirtuallyGhetto][2]


but cannot find puppet samples, where a user can get permissions to create 
a VM SnapShot, and also revert it, without having root access, or admin 
rights.

I also found [vmth][3] but VMTH currently only works in a QEMU+KVM 
environment


  [1]: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/index.html
  [2]: 
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/p/vmware-vsphere-sdk-for-perl-vi-perl.html
  [3]: https://github.com/gregretkowski/vmth/

to me this is something very basic, and SHOULD be available in puppet 
natively, but i just cannot seem to find it.

Thanks,
-Kamal.

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> but cannot find puppet samples, where a user can get permissions to create
> a VM SnapShot, and also revert it, without having root access, or admin
> rights.
I would consider 2 possible approaches:
1. You have to get a restricted user created by a VMware administrator.
2. You consider creating a "push service" to have this done.

"push service": I can''t think of a better name, but you
basically
create a service with admin/root access that scans maybe a particular
directory.  Your puppet scripts, for example, simply drop a file that
special directory.  Your service scans this directory regularly and
takes the appropriate action(s).  The file could contain a name and an
action: "vm_foo":"create_snapshot".  This would be enough
information
for the service to act accordingly.

Marco

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