# Provisioning RHEL VMs

The following playbooks are used to provision RHEL VMs:

• playbooks/provision_nodes.yml will create all the necessary virtual machines for the environment from the VM Template defined in the vm_template variable. All Linux VMs are now created in one go, regardless of the number of drives they have. This playbook also has the potential to configure additional network adapters. Note that this playbook will also provision any Linux or Windows bare metal nodes that are configured in the inventory.
• playbooks/config_networking.yml will configure the network settings in all the virtual machines.
• playbooks/resize_syspart.yml resizes the logical volume that holds the / partition of the Linux VMs to use all the space available on the drive.
• playbooks/config_subscription.yml registers and subscribes all virtual machines to the Red Hat Customer Portal.
• playbooks/config_ntp.yml configures the chrony client package in all virtual machines in order to have a synchronized clock across the environment. It will use the list of servers specified in the ntp_servers variable in the file group_vars/all/vars.