Automated KVM VM Provisioning with Ansible and OSBuild on RHEL9
July 3, 2025
Ansible,
Rhel9,
Libvirt,
Kvm,
Osbuild,
Automation,
Virtualization,
Qemu,
Ansible Automation Platform,
Aap
Automated KVM VM Provisioning with Ansible and OSBuild on RHEL9 #
Introduction #
When I started looking into automating my homelab VM provisioning, I was surprised by the lack of examples combining Ansible with OSBuild for KVM environments. Not many tutorials focus on KVM, so I wanted something that used Red Hat’s tooling - as I run a RHEL homelab.
I used to provision my homelab virtual machines by hand and eventually I got tired of doing it since I like to tinker around a lot and constantly add new VMs. So, I decided to automate the process using the combination of Ansible and OSBuild.