that is not a valid playbook, you are putting tasks in vars_prompt, they belong in a 'tasks' section, roles also shoudl be at play level:
- name: Enter variables hosts: localhost gather_facts: no vars_prompt: - name: "vsphere_username" prompt: "Enter vSphere Username" private: no - name: "vsphere_password" prompt: "Enter vSphere Password" - name: "vm_hostname" prompt: "Enter Virtual Machine Hostname" private: no - name: "vsphere_template" prompt: "Which application do you want to deploy?\n1- Windows Server 2012R2\n2- Windows Server 2016\n" private: no - name: "java_selection" prompt: "Which Java version do you want to deploy?\n1- JDK1.6\n2- JDK1.7\n3- JDK1.8\n" private: no - name: "tomcat_selection" prompt: "Which Tomcat version do you want to deploy?\n1- Tomcat 7.0\n2- Tomcat 8.5\n3- Tomcat 9.0\n" private: no pre_tasks: - name: "Adding virtual machine hostname to inventory" add_host: name: "{{ vm_hostname }}" group: - windows roles: - role: provision vsphere_username: vsphere_username vsphere_password: vsphere_password vm_hostname: vm_hostname vsphere_template: vsphere_template Though tasks do not execute before roles, so i used a 'pre_tasks' keyword instead. -- ---------- Brian Coca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CACVha7daDfKeY7YNDp1r5-dUzjhRA5tae4qmtbLJsa7mJxZggA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.