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I am attempting to create a playbook to deploy multiple linux VMs from a template and assigning a static ip and I am running into issues. My playbook:

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I am attempting to create a playbook to deploy multiple linux VMs from a template and assigning a static ip and I am running into issues. My playbook:

---

- hosts: localhost

gather_facts: no

vars_files:

\- group\_vars/vars

\- group\_vars/vars\_sec

tasks:

- name: Clone the template

vmware\_guest:

  hostname: "\{\{ vcenter\_server \}\}"

  username: "\{\{ vcenter\_user \}\}"

  password: "\{\{ vcenter\_pass \}\}"

  validate\_certs: False

  name: "\{\{ item\.name \}\}"

  template: "\{\{ template \}\}"

  datacenter: "\{\{ datacenter\_name \}\}"

  folder: "\{\{ folder \}\}"

  cluster:  "\{\{ cluster\_name \}\}"

  datastore: "\{\{ datastore \}\}"

  networks:

    name: "\{\{ lan \}\}"

    ip:  '\{\{ item\.ip \}\}'

    netmask: 255\.255\.254\.0

    gateway: "\{\{ gw \}\}"

    connected: yes

    start\_connected: yes

  state: poweredon

  wait\_for\_ip\_address: yes

delegate\_to: localhost

with\_items:

\- \{ name: qanstest01, ip: 10\.10\.73\.43 \}

\- \{ name: qanstest02, ip: 10\.10\.73\.44 \}

\- \{ name: qanstest03, ip: 10\.10\.73\.45 \}

When I run the playbook I get the following error output

"msg": "argument 'networks' is of type <class 'dict'> and we were unable to convert to list: <class 'dict'> cannot be converted to a list"

Any suggestions on how to get around this?

Use a list for the network parameters as shown in the examples for this module:

networks:

 \- name: &quot;\{\{ lan \}\}&quot;

   ip:  &#39;\{\{ item\.ip \}\}&#39;

   netmask: 255\.255\.254\.0

   gateway: &quot;\{\{ gw \}\}&quot;

   connected: yes

   start\_connected: yes

Regards

         Racke