Build and deploy the latest open-vm-tools from source with Ansible and Docker

Build and deploy the latest open-vm-tools from source with Ansible and Docker If you run Linux VMs on VMware, you've probably hit this: your distro ships an open-vm-tools version that's 1-2 years behind upstream. That matters when you need guest OS compatibility fixes for newer ESXi, VMCI socket support, or CVE patches your distro hasn't backported yet. I built an Ansible role that solves this: vmware-tools-builder — it compiles the latest open-vm-tools inside isolated Docker containers, produce