Install VMWare vSAN Management SDK

install-vsan-sdk.bash

#!/bin/bash

# Install VMWare vSAN Management SDK, which needs to be downloaded from VMware and installed manually.

# ryan@supported.systems 2023-07-04
# Created for bootstrapping the Ansible vmware_cluster_vsan module on posix systems:
#   https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_cluster_vsan_module.html
# The info here was helpful (thanks!):
#   https://sky-jokerxx.medium.com/how-to-use-vsan-modules-for-community-vmware-with-ansible-664702e097c4
#
# Then I found the right way to do it (doh)!
#   http://dnaeon.github.io/packaging-the-vsan-sdk-for-python/
# 

SDK_ZIP=vsan-sdk-python.zip

if [ ! -f $SDK_ZIP ]
then
    echo "
    Manually download vSAN Python SDK from vmware
    NB: CHECK THE VERSION DROP-DOWN IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER!
      7.0 U3 https://developer.vmware.com/web/sdk/7.0%20U3/vsan-python
      6.7 U3 - https://developer.vmware.com/web/sdk/6.7U3/vsan-python
    Put the downloaded zip in ${PWD}/${SDK_ZIP} and run me again "
    exit 1
fi

SITE_PACKAGES=$(python3 -c 'import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_paths()["purelib"])')
echo "Site Packages: ${SITE_PACKAGES}"

if [[ -f ${SITE_PACKAGES}/vsanapiutils.py ]] && [[ -f ${SITE_PACKAGES}/vsanapiutils.py ]]
then
    echo Already installed in ${SITE_PACKAGES} >&2
    exit 0
fi

TMP=.vsan-sdk-install-${RANDOM}
echo "Creating a tmpdir ${TMP}"
mkdir ${TMP}

echo "Unzipping SDK_ZIP"	
unzip -d ${TMP} -qq ${SDK_ZIP}

echo "Installing vsan-sdk into ${SITE_PACKAGES}"
find ${TMP}/vsan-sdk-python/ -type f | grep -e vsanmgmtObjects -e vsanapiutils | xargs -n 1 -i cp {} $SITE_PACKAGES

rm -rf ${TMP}

echo "Installing defusedxml dependency package with pip3"
pip3 install defusedxml

TEST_COMMAND="python3 -c 'import vsanapiutils; import vsanmgmtObjects'"
set -e
echo "Testing python import of vsanapiutils and vsanmgmtObjects: ${TEST_COMMAND}"

echo "It worked!"
echo ""