Getting error in deploying VMs using Ansible vsphere_guest module

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I am getting below error while using Ansible (version 1.8.2) vSphere_guest module,

osboxes@osboxes:~$ ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbooks/main.yml -K
sudo password:

PLAY [localhost] **************************************************************

TASK: [vsphere_guest ] ********************************************************
failed: [localhost] => {“failed”: true, “parsed”: false}
SUDO-SUCCESS-ldmjglnajxpocoybboumisekhbbnmhnp
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/osboxes/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1423728228.54-220175308723408/vsphere_guest”, line 2791, in
main()
File “/home/osboxes/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1423728228.54-220175308723408/vsphere_guest”, line 1197, in main
config_check(“vm_disk”, vm_disk, proto_vm_disk, module)
File “/home/osboxes/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1423728228.54-220175308723408/vsphere_guest”, line 1012, in config_check
if diff.recursive_diff():
File “/home/osboxes/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1423728228.54-220175308723408/vsphere_guest”, line 983, in recursive_diff
if k in self.check_dict[key]:
TypeError: argument of type ‘NoneType’ is not iterable

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************
to retry, use: --limit @/home/osboxes/main.retry

localhost : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1

Did anybody face this issue before? It may be, I am doing some silly mistake but unable to catch that.

Thanks

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Can you post the vsphere_guest task that’s failing? I can’t pick it exactly from that error but we use it a fair bit so can at least have a gander for any of the things we tripped up on while figuring it out.

Cheers,
Daniel

3

Please share the task definition (without confidential data).

Giovanni

4

Hi,

Below is yml am using,

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I think you need to fix the indentation:

       vm_disk:
         disk1:
          size_gb: 1
          type: thin
          datastore: compute

http://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2519916

Giovanni

6

You might be getting bitten by something I fixed in December…

https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/562

Does it do the same if you use the devel branch?

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Thank you Giovanni!! That solved the problem.

-Nitin

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Thanks Mark, Daniel. That was the yml issue.