Plybook with community.vmware modules & inventory item issue

[esxi...@gmail.com]

Hi

I am using community.vmware related modules in a playbook .. which updates tags & reboot vms

In the same vm i would like to patch the VM

Below is the code .. but the yum module here seems not acting on the target ie "{{ vm_name }" but does not the ansible control node itself

Any suggestions Please ( My requirement is not to use separate playbook )

---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  connection: local
  vars_files:
    - /etc/ansible/playbooks/vm-provision/vars/vc.yml
  tasks:
    - name: Update tags
      community.vmware.vmware_guest_custom_attributes:
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_server }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        validate_certs: no
        name: "{{ vm_name }"
        state: present
        attributes:
          - name: OS
            value: "{{ vcenter_OS }}"
          - name: Location
            value: "{{ vcenter_Location }}"
    - name: upgrade all packages
      yum: name=* state=latest
     
    - name: Reboot the VM
      community.vmware.vmware_guest_powerstate:
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_server }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        validate_certs: no
        folder: "{{ vcenter_folder }}"
        name: "{{ vm_name }"
        state: reboot-guest

Thanks

Kiran

[Jorge Rúa]

You should modify your hosts entry to point to inventory vms and delegate to localhost vmware tasks.

Hope that helps,

Regards

 

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[esxi...@gmail.com]

Thanks for the reply .. So you mean change below

---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  connection: local

to

---
- hosts: New-VM-Section
  gather_facts: false
  connection: local

AND

add in task below

- name: Update tags  &   - name: Reboot the VM

..

..

delegate_to: localhost

[Jorge Rúa]

Yep, that should do the trick.

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[esxi...@gmail.com]

Thanks Again

Is below possible in this case :-

Section called New-VM-Section has many servers

But i would like playbook task of  patching only on specific vm ?

eg

[ New-VM-Section]

vm1

vm2

vm3

And the playbook below to run only on  say vm3 & not entire section called New-VM-Section

- hosts: New-VM-Section
  gather_facts: false

...

yum:..

I know below

To exclude host1 and host2 from execution and allow execution only in host3:

$ ansible-playbook --limit '!hoost1:!host2:host3' yourPlaybook.yml

Is there way to rather "include" only 1 ...

Also how to add this in playbook itself

Any suggestions Please

[esxi...@gmail.com]

Found this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18195142/safely-limiting-ansible-playbooks-to-a-single-machine

So folks saying better use -e of ansible-playbook