Hello, all.
I'm working with VMware modules in removing snapshots across all vCenter
folders. In order for this to work, I first have to get the folders in
which the virtual machines live. Here's the playbook:
*---- hosts: all become: false gather_facts: false vars_prompt: -
name: "vcenter_username" prompt: "Enter your Vcenter username"
private: no - name: "vcenter_password" prompt: "Enter your VMware
password" private: yes vars: vcenter_hostname:
vcenter1.mycompany.com vcenter_datacenter: First Datacenter tasks: -
name: Find virtual machine's folder name vmware_guest_find:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username
}}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" name: "{{
inventory_hostname }}" validate_certs: False delegate_to:
localhost ignore_errors: true register: vm_facts tags:*
* - folder - name: Show folders ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "{{ vm_facts.folders }}" tags: - folder - name:
Remove all snapshots of a VM community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{
vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}" folder: "{{ vm_facts.folders
| regex_replace('(\\[)|(\\])', '') }}" name: "{{ inventory_hostname
}}" state: remove_all validate_certs: False delegate_to:
localhost*
Previous to my having employed regex_replace, this is the output I'd get,
e.g., for a vm's folder:
*"['/First Datacenter/vm/Prod-SRM']"*
The problem with that is *['* and *']*. They can't be part pf the folder
name. After employing regex-replace, the output is:
*" '/Bedford Datacenter/vm/Bedford-Prod-SRM' "*
Try as I may, I've not been able to find a way to also remove the single
quotes (the double quotes can remain). I've tried appending to the
regex_replace, but every piece of code i've used has failed.
*regex_replace('(\\[)|(\\])'|(addlcodehere), '') }}*
Your kinf assistance requested.
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