Ansible loop issue

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Hi, Community,

I am passing in a list, ‘vmware_hosts’, to the loop in the following task in order to substitute values for the name: and hostname: parameters. I have found only the sub is being made for name: but not for hostname:.

  • name: Set powerstate of a virtual machine to poweron
    community.vmware.vmware_guest:
    hostname: “{{ vc_host_id }}”
    username: “{{ username }}”
    password: “{{ survey_password }}”
    name: “{{ item }}”
    customization:
    existing_vm: true
    dns_servers:
  • “{{ dns_ns1 }}”
  • “{{ dns_ns2 }}”
    hostname: “{{ item }}”
    state: poweredon
    wait_for_ip_address: true
    loop: “{{ vmware_hosts }}”
    register: vm_state
    delegate_to: localhost

For each iteration of the loop, i.e. a different host, I need these two parameters to hold the same value.

What am I missing here?

Thanks!

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I’m inclined to believe someone is confused by the two hostname: parameters, and would need to see some job log evidence supporting the claim that “the sub[stitution] is being made for name: but not for hostname:.” In any case, something from the job log would/should be informative.

I’ve found in situations like this it’s helpful to change to module to ansible.builtin.debug: immediately followed by msg: |. You’d then need to play with indentation a little to make it informative.

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Thanks, Todd.

According the docs, the name: param is for the virtual machine and hostname: under customization: is for setting the hostname. I was able to register the stdout of the task, capturing it
to a variable. The substitutions are being made.

“instance”: {
“module_hw”: true,
“hw_name”: “rheltest0816d”,
“hw_power_status”: “poweredOn”,

-and-

“customization”: {
“existing_vm”: true,
“dns_servers”: [
“redacted”,
“redacted”
],
“domain”: “”,
“hostname”: “rheltest0816d”,

The hostname is not being updated on the vm though and that’s causing a glitch downstream in the next job template in the workflow.
I’m not sure if I should move the state: param near the beginning of the task.