Automate Custome Attribute Population - Vmware

[esxi...@gmail.com]

Hi

Here are my custom attributes

Today these are populated with community.vmware.vmware_guest_custom_attributes

But that is manually from the file.. it has human error possible

eg Ubuntu 20.04 folks may type Ubuntu20.4

There is facts which ansible gather has the OS info.. eg -m setup -a "filter=ansible_distribution_version"

Is it somehow possible to get the OS info populated "automatically" with a playbook .. ie update the custom attributes dynamically with real time data ?

Any suggestions Please ?

Thanks

[esxi...@gmail.com]

I will give 1 more reason .. eg someone upgrade OS from 16.04 to 20.04 .. may forget to update the custom attributes...

[Abhijeet Kasurde]

You can do this using dynamic inventory and delegate_to

Here is how -

1. Gather facts about virtual machines

2. Gather facts about custom attributes using vmware_guest_info

3. Compare and change if needed

you can see this playbook

---

- hosts: running

tasks:

- setup:

register: r

- debug:

msg: "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution }}"

- name: Get custom attributes information

vmware_guest_info:

name: CentOS7_Rest

datacenter: Asia-Datacenter1

folder: /Asia-Datacenter1/vm/

register: vm_info

delegate_to: localhost

- debug:

msg: "{{ vm_info }}"

- name: Update OS information

vmware_guest_custom_attributes:

name: CentOS7_Rest

datacenter: Asia-Datacenter1

folder: /Asia-Datacenter1/vm/

state: present

attributes:

- name: OS

value: "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution }}"

when: vm_info.instance.customvalues.OS != r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution

delegate_to: localhost

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[esxi...@gmail.com]

Thanks a lot Abhijit .. i will give it a try  & report issue if any.

[Kiran Kumar]

Thanks Abhijit, Awesome ,  it worked !!!!

Only issue is

value: "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution }}"

when: vm_info.instance.customvalues.OS != r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution

that Just give Ubuntu ... is it possible to extract the info from setup module ie below part..

        "ansible_lsb": {
            "codename": "bionic",
            "description": "Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS",
            "id": "Ubuntu",
            "major_release": "18",
            "release": "18.04"
        },

Hopefully that is also present in CentOS nodes that way .. so the description part ...

r.ansible_facts.ansible_lsb.description ? will do ..

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[Kiran Kumar]

Wow r.ansible_facts.ansible_lsb.description did worked !!! Thanks again Abhijit

[Kiran Kumar]

Setup gives :

        "ansible_distribution": "Ubuntu",
        "ansible_distribution_file_parsed": true,
        "ansible_distribution_file_path": "/etc/os-release",
        "ansible_distribution_file_variety": "Debian",
        "ansible_distribution_major_version": "18",
        "ansible_distribution_release": "bionic",
        "ansible_distribution_version": "18.04",



I would like to use OS name as

Ubuntu20.04 & not Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

So tried below .. as value .. all 3 failed .. any suggestions Please, on how to concatenate  ?

#######################################

The offending line appears to be:

        - name: OS
          value: "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution }}" "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution_version }}"
                                                              ^ here
We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
missing quotes. Always quote template expression brackets when they
start a value. For instance:

    with_items:
      - {{ foo }}

Should be written as:

    with_items:
      - "{{ foo }}"
#######################################
The offending line appears to be:

        - name: OS
          value: "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution }}"+"{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution_version }}"
                                                             ^ here
We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
missing quotes. Always quote template expression brackets when they
start a value. For instance:

    with_items:
      - {{ foo }}

Should be written as:

    with_items:
      - "{{ foo }}"

#######################################
{"msg": "template error while templating string: expected token 'end of print statement', got 'r'. String: {{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution_version }}"}

#######################################

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 2/24/21 11:04 AM, Kiran Kumar wrote:
>
> Setup gives :
>
>         "ansible_distribution": "Ubuntu",
>         "ansible_distribution_file_parsed": true,
>         "ansible_distribution_file_path": "/etc/os-release",
>         "ansible_distribution_file_variety": "Debian",
>         "ansible_distribution_major_version": "18",
>         "ansible_distribution_release": "bionic",
>         "ansible_distribution_version": "18.04",
>
>
>
> I would like to use OS name as
>
> Ubuntu20.04 & not Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
>

> So tried below .. as /*value */.. all 3 failed .. any suggestions Please, on how to concatenate  ?

>
> #######################################
>
> The offending line appears to be:
>
>         - name: OS
>           value: "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution }}" "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution_version }}"
>                                                               ^ here

This should do the trick:

value: "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution }} {{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution_version }}"

Regards
racke

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:24 AM Kiran Kumar <esxi...@gmail.com <mailto:esxi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Wow r.ansible_facts.ansible_lsb.description did worked !!! Thanks again Abhijit
>

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:17 AM Kiran Kumar <esxi...@gmail.com <mailto:esxi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Abhijit, Awesome ,  it worked !!!!
>
> Only issue is
>
> value: "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution }}"
> when: vm_info.instance.customvalues.OS != r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution
>
> that Just give Ubuntu ... is it possible to extract the info from setup module ie below part..
>
>
>         "ansible_lsb": {
>             "codename": "bionic",

> _*            "description": "Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS",*_

> Capture.JPG
>
>
> Today these are populated with community.vmware.vmware_guest_custom_attributes
>
>
> But that is manually from the file.. it has human error possible
>
> eg Ubuntu 20.04 folks may type Ubuntu20.4
>
>
> There is facts which ansible gather has the OS info.. eg -m setup -a
> "filter=ansible_distribution_version"
>
>
> Is it somehow possible to get the OS info populated "automatically" with a playbook .. ie update
> the custom attributes dynamically with real time data ?
>
> Any suggestions Please ?
>
> Thanks
>
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[Abhijeet Kasurde]

how about -

"{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution ~ ' ' ~ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution_version }}"

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[Kiran Kumar]

"{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution ~ ' ' ~ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution_version }}" , works

it gives

Ubuntu 18.04

How to get

Ubuntu18.04

Ie remove the space ?

Will try few things ..  Any docs Please on this ?  where you go these .. ~ ' ' ~ :)

BTW yes, "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution }} {{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution_version }}"  , worked too , even that add that space ...

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[Kiran Kumar]

Ok this one was easy .. just did below

value: "{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution }}{{ r.ansible_facts.ansible_distribution_version }}"

Thanks again Abhi & Stefan Hornburg (Racke)