I’m using the “vmware_vm_info” module to fetch the VM name with the below playbook and it is working fine but if I try to add the ?guest_name==‘vm_name’ as variable it is not working. Can you please suggest how to generalize the play by adding the variable to the guestn_name?
I’m using the “vmware_vm_info” module to fetch the VM name with the below playbook and it is working fine but if I try to add the ?guest_name==‘vm_name’ as variable it is not working. Can you please suggest how to generalize the play by adding the variable to the guestn_name?
name: Check if the VM existing the Vcenter
hosts: localhost
vars_files: 1credentials.yml
vars:
vm_name: server2
tasks:name: Checking VM details
block:name: Get virtual machine info
vmware_vm_info:
hostname: ‘{{ vcenter_hostname }}’
username: ‘{{ vcenter_username }}’
password: ‘{{ vcenter_password }}’
validate_certs: no
delegate_to: localhost
register: vm_infodebug:
msg: “{{ item.guest_name }}”
with_items:“{{ vm_info.virtual_machines | json_query(query) }}”
vars:
query: “[?guest_name==‘server2’]”
Try backticks:
query: “[?guest_name==server2]”
No I mean, it is working if I give ‘server2’ but if I give the variable defined in the vars: section it is not working.
Where are you specifying the vm_name in vmware_vm_info? ansible-doc shows this is a required parameter.
- name: Gather one specific VM
community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:
hostname: ‘{{ vcenter_hostname }}’
username: ‘{{ vcenter_username }}’
password: ‘{{ vcenter_password }}’
vm_name: ‘vm_name_as_per_vcenter’
delegate_to: localhost
register: vm_info
In your example you would need to use “{{ vm_name }}” as the value of the vm_name parameter.
- name: Gather one specific VM
community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:
hostname: ‘{{ vcenter_hostname }}’
username: ‘{{ vcenter_username }}’
password: ‘{{ vcenter_password }}’
vm_name: ‘{{ vm_name }}’
delegate_to: localhost
register: vm_info