The debug module prints to the job log. It's a common mistake to try to
use the job log as formatted output for other purposes, like reports.
Instead you could use the ansible.builtin.template module to output the
desired data in some other file. Or you can take the
often-warned-against shortcut of using the copy module to do the same,
like so:
---
- name: Example
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
vars:
vm_info:
virtual_machines:
- {'guest_name': 'rhel8tst', 'guest_fullname': 'Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 8 (64-bit)', 'power_state': 'poweredOn', 'ip_address': 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx',
'mac_address': ['xxx'], 'uuid': '422c523e-7bb0-1f95-1c16-742c30ba445d',
'vm_network': {'xxx': {'ipv4': ['xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'], 'ipv6': ['xxx']}},
'esxi_hostname': '.xxxx', 'datacenter': 'xxxx', 'cluster': 'xxxxx',
'resource_pool': None, 'attributes': {}, 'tags': [], 'folder': None, 'moid':
'vm-502018', 'datastore_url': [{'name': 'xxxx', 'url': 'xxx'}], 'allocated': {}}
tasks:
- name: Show virtual machines guest_name in job log
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ item['guest_name'] }}"
with_items: "{{ vm_info.virtual_machines }}"
- name: Print virtual machines guest_name in output file
ansible.builtin.copy: # should really use template here
content: |
Virtual Machine Names
{% for vm in vm_info.virtual_machines %}
- {{ vm['guest_name'] }}
{% endfor %}
dest: /tmp/virtual_machine_names.txt
On 5/2/23 2:00 PM, Alex Wanderley wrote:
Hello,
I need to collect some info from VMs in our VMware cluster and am
having trouble figuring out how to print only the information I need.
When running the code below:
- name: collect VMs in specific folder
community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:
validate_certs: False
hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_passwd }}"
folder: "{{ vcenter_folder }}"
delegate_to: localhost
register: vm_info
- name: print VM info
debug:
msg: "{{ item['guest_name'] }}"
with_items: "{{ vm_info.virtual_machines }}"
I'm getting this result:
TASK [print VM info]
***********************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item={'guest_name': 'rhel8tst', 'guest_fullname':
'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (64-bit)', 'power_state': 'poweredOn',
'ip_address': 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx', 'mac_address': ['xxx'], 'uuid':
'422c523e-7bb0-1f95-1c16-742c30ba445d', 'vm_network': {'xxx': {'ipv4':
['xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'], 'ipv6': ['xxx']}}, 'esxi_hostname': '.xxxx',
'datacenter': 'xxxx', 'cluster': 'xxxxx', 'resource_pool': None,
'attributes': {}, 'tags': [], 'folder': None, 'moid': 'vm-502018',
'datastore_url': [{'name': 'xxxx', 'url': 'xxx'}], 'allocated': {}}) => {
"msg": "rhel8tst"
}
How could I have (in this case) only the VM name "rhel8tst" printed out?
Thanks a lot,
Alex
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