Hi Mark,
I think you are getting pretty close.
I can see a couple of issues in your playbook which might unstick you...
First the with_items needs to go right at the end of all of the parameters
for the vsphere guest module - at the moment you have the exsi parameter
after the with_items.
Also there's a missing double quote at the end of the with items line:
with_items: "{{ serverlist }}
should probably be:
with_items: "{{ serverlist }}"
The other thing is actually getting your file containing the serverlist
variable loaded into Ansible. There's at least a couple of ways of doing
this - either do an include_vars: file_containing_vars.yml at the top of
your playbook, or you can pass in the contents of a yaml file on the
command line using -e @/path/to/yaml/file.yml. Not sure what is going to
suit your usage best
Hope this is enough to get you unstuck.
Jon
On Friday, 11 March 2016 13:23:19 UTC, Mark Matthews wrote:
>
> Hi Jon
>
> Thanks so much for the response.
>
> I was looking at that and have ried a few things without success.
>
> Are you able to see if im on the right track here?
> I have create a file called 'hostnames' which is located in a sub
> directory (files) where the playbook is, and have included the vm names in
> that file:
>
> ---
> serverlist:
> - server1
> - server2
>
> I have then added the 'with_items' and variable 'serverlist'. But i think
> I may be getting a bit confused through?
> Im I completely off track here?
>
>
> Playbook:
>
> ---
> - hosts: 127.0.0.1
> connection: local
> user: root
> sudo: false
> gather_facts: false
> serial: 1
> vars:
> vcenter_hostname: UK.server.local
> esxhost: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> datastore: UK1
> network: Web
> vmcluster: UKCLUSTER
> serverlist: files/hostnames
> folder: Utilities
> notes: Created by Ansible
>
> tasks:
> - name: Create VM from template
> vsphere_guest:
> vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
> username: "{{ username }}"
> password: "{{ password }}"
> guest: "{{ list }}"
> vm_extra_config:
> notes: "{{ notes }}"
> folder: "{{ folder }}"
> from_template: yes
> template_src: "{{ vmtemplate }}"
> cluster: "{{ vmcluster }}"
> resource_pool: "/Resources"
> with_items: "{{ serverlist }}
>
> esxi:
> datacenter: UK
> hostname: "{{ esxhost }}"
>
>
>
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
> On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 5:00:18 PM UTC, Mark Matthews wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Is it at all possible to create multiple VMware VM's using an Ansible
>> playbook? Giving each VM a unique name (server1, server2, server3, server4)?
>>
>> I can see anyway of doing this using the following playbooks, as it keeps
>> failing?
>>
>> ---
>> - hosts: 127.0.0.1
>> connection: local
>> user: root
>> sudo: false
>> gather_facts: false
>> serial: 1
>> vars:
>> vcenter_hostname: UK.server.local
>> esxhost: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>> datastore: UK1
>> network: Web
>> vmcluster: UKCLUSTER
>> guest_name: server1, server2, server3, server4
>> folder: Utilities
>> notes: Created by Ansible
>>
>> tasks:
>> - name: Create VM from template
>> vsphere_guest:
>> vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
>> username: "{{ username }}"
>> password: "{{ password }}"
>> guest: "{{ guest_name }}"
>> vm_extra_config:
>> notes: "{{ notes }}"
>> folder: "{{ folder }}"
>> from_template: yes
>> template_src: "{{ vmtemplate }}"
>> cluster: "{{ vmcluster }}"
>> resource_pool: "/Resources"
>>
>> esxi:
>> datacenter: UK
>> hostname: "{{ esxhost }}"
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions would be really appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
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