deploying template with vsphere_guest failing

[Jeff Richards]

When trying to deploy a template (Ansible 1.9.6) as follows:

- hosts: 127.0.0.1

  connection: local

  user: root

  sudo: false

  gather_facts: false

  serial: 1

  tasks:

  - vsphere_guest:

      vcenter_hostname: XXXXXXXXX

      username: XXXXXXXXXX

      password: 'XXXXXX'

      guest: testvm

      from_template: yes

      template_src: XXXXXXXXXXX

      esxi:

        datacenter: XXXXX

        hostname: XXXXXXx

I get the error:

msg: parameters are required together: ['from_template', 'resource_pool', 'template_src']

Now this is well documented and was addressed some time back:

https://github.com/rce/ansible-modules-core/commit/1a8da60253ddeb761110102f2b4421ffdc36c401

"vsphere_guest now can deploy a template using a datacenter and hostname as the target, instead of requiring a cluster and resource_pool."

Any idea why I appear to be seeing a regression here?

Jeff

[Ayan Dasgupta]

Can you try adding a dummy resource pool in your code if you don't have any in our environment ?

Example :--

resource_pool: "/Resources"

[Jeff Richards]

Yes, already tried that, it just errors saying I also need to specify a cluster - and there's no dummy resource for that.

It's exactly what was described (and fixed(?)) here:

https://github.com/rce/ansible-modules-core/commit/1a8da60253ddeb761110102f2b4421ffdc36c401

"vsphere_guest now can deploy a template using a datacenter and hostname as the target, instead of requiring a cluster and resource_pool."

Jeff

[Jeff Richards]

Ok, end of puzzle; this works fine in Ansible 2.x

Jeff