vsphere_guest with_items or with_dict not working

[Rory Schramm]

I'm trying to make a playbook to provision some vsphere vm's using the vsphere_guest module. However, I cant seem to figure out how to iterate through multiple vm disks using either with_items or with_dict defined in host_vars or group_vars.

Any idea's on how to make this work?

#inventory/vmdeploy:

[vmdeploy]

pxc-01.dev.local vm=pxc-01 ansible_host=192.168.1.101 gw=192.168.1.1 static=true

pxc-02.dev.local vm=pxc-02 ansible_host=192.168.1.102 gw=192.168.1.1 static=true

pxc-03.dev.local vm=pxc-03 ansible_host=192.168.1.103 gw=192.168.1.1 static=true

pxc-04.dev.local vm=pxc-04 ansible_host=192.168.1.104 gw=192.168.1.1 static=true

#group_vars/vmdeploy:

vm_notes: 'created_by_ansible'

vm_folder: 'ansible'

vm_network: 'VM Network'

vm_memory: '2048'

vm_vcpu: '2'

vm_osid: 'centos64Guest'

vm_disks:

  disk1:

    size: '16'

    type: 'thin'

  disk2:

    size: '30'

    type: 'thin'

#playbooks/vmdeploy.yml:

- hosts: all

  connection: local

  user: root

  sudo: false

  gather_facts: false

  vars:

   vcenter_hostname: "{{ vc_host }}"

   vcenter_user: "{{ lookup('env','vc_user') }}"

   vcenter_pass: "{{ lookup('env','vc_pass') }}"

   esxi_cluster: '"{{ vc_cluster }}'

   vcenter_datastore: "{{ vc_datastore }}"

   vcenter_datacenter: "{{ vc_datacenter }}"

   esxi_host: "{{ esxi_host }}"

  tasks:

    - debug: msg="disk={{item}} disk_type={{hostvars[inventory_hostname]['vm_disk'][item]['type']}} disk_size={{hostvars[inventory_hostname]['vm_disk'][item]['size']}} datastore={{hostvars[inventory_hostname]['vm_disk'][item]['datastore']}}"

      with_items: "{{vm_disk}}"

    - vsphere_guest:

        vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"

        username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"

        password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"

        guest: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"

        state: "{{ vm_state|default('present') }}"

        vm_extra_config:

          notes: "{{ vm_notes }}"

          folder: "{{ vm_folder }}"

        vm_disk:

          "{{item}}":

            size_gb: "{{hostvars[inventory_hostname]['vm_disk'][item]['size']|int}}"

            type: "{{hostvars[inventory_hostname]['vm_disk'][item]['type']}}"

            datastore: "{{hostvars[inventory_hostname]['vm_disk'][item]['datastore']}}"

        vm_nic:

          nic1:

            type: vmxnet3

            network: "{{ vm_network }}"

            network_type: "standard"

        vm_hardware:

          memory_mb: "{{ vm_memory }}"

          num_cpus: "{{ vm_vcpu }}"

          osid: "{{ vm_osid }}"

          scsi: paravirtual

        cluster: "{{ esxi_cluster }}"

        esxi:

          hostname: "{{ esxi_host }}"

          datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"

      with_items: "{{vm_disk}}"

ansible-play -i inventory/vmdeploy playbooks/vmdeploy.yml

TASK [debug] *******************************************************************

ok: [pxc-01.dev.local] => (item=disk1) => {

    "item": "disk1",

    "msg": "disk=disk1 disk_type=thin disk_size=16 datastore=testds"

}

ok: [pxc-01.dev.local] => (item=disk2) => {

    "item": "disk2",

    "msg": "disk=disk2 disk_type=thin disk_size=30 datastore=testds"

}

ok: [pxc-02.dev.local] => (item=disk1) => {

    "item": "disk1",

    "msg": "disk=disk1 disk_type=thin disk_size=16 datastore=testds"

}

ok: [pxc-03.dev.local] => (item=disk1) => {

    "item": "disk1",

    "msg": "disk=disk1 disk_type=thin disk_size=16 datastore=testds"

}

ok: [pxc-04.dev.local] => (item=disk1) => {

    "item": "disk1",

    "msg": "disk=disk1 disk_type=thin disk_size=16 datastore=testds"

}

ok: [pxc-02.dev.local] => (item=disk2) => {

    "item": "disk2",

    "msg": "disk=disk2 disk_type=thin disk_size=30 datastore=testds"

}

ok: [pxc-03.dev.local] => (item=disk2) => {

    "item": "disk2",

    "msg": "disk=disk2 disk_type=thin disk_size=30 datastore=testds"

}

ok: [pxc-04.dev.local] => (item=disk2) => {

    "item": "disk2",

    "msg": "disk=disk2 disk_type=thin disk_size=30 datastore=testds"

}

TASK [vsphere_guest] ***********************************************************

failed: [pxc-02.dev.local] (item=disk1) => {"failed": true, "item": "disk1", "msg": "Missing required key/pair [disk1]. vm_disk must contain {'disk1': {'datastore': <type 'basestring'>, 'type': <type 'basestring'>, 'size_gb': <type 'int'>}}"}

failed: [pxc-04.dev.local] (item=disk1) => {"failed": true, "item": "disk1", "msg": "Missing required key/pair [disk1]. vm_disk must contain {'disk1': {'datastore': <type 'basestring'>, 'type': <type 'basestring'>, 'size_gb': <type 'int'>}}"}

failed: [pxc-03.dev.local] (item=disk1) => {"failed": true, "item": "disk1", "msg": "Missing required key/pair [disk1]. vm_disk must contain {'disk1': {'datastore': <type 'basestring'>, 'type': <type 'basestring'>, 'size_gb': <type 'int'>}}"}

failed: [pxc-01.dev.local] (item=disk1) => {"failed": true, "item": "disk1", "msg": "Missing required key/pair [disk1]. vm_disk must contain {'disk1': {'datastore': <type 'basestring'>, 'type': <type 'basestring'>, 'size_gb': <type 'int'>}}"}

failed: [pxc-02.dev.local] (item=disk2) => {"failed": true, "item": "disk2", "msg": "Missing required key/pair [disk1]. vm_disk must contain {'disk1': {'datastore': <type 'basestring'>, 'type': <type 'basestring'>, 'size_gb': <type 'int'>}}"}

failed: [pxc-01.dev.local] (item=disk2) => {"failed": true, "item": "disk2", "msg": "Missing required key/pair [disk1]. vm_disk must contain {'disk1': {'datastore': <type 'basestring'>, 'type': <type 'basestring'>, 'size_gb': <type 'int'>}}"}

failed: [pxc-03.dev.local] (item=disk2) => {"failed": true, "item": "disk2", "msg": "Missing required key/pair [disk1]. vm_disk must contain {'disk1': {'datastore': <type 'basestring'>, 'type': <type 'basestring'>, 'size_gb': <type 'int'>}}"}

failed: [pxc-04.dev.local] (item=disk2) => {"failed": true, "item": "disk2", "msg": "Missing required key/pair [disk1]. vm_disk must contain {'disk1': {'datastore': <type 'basestring'>, 'type': <type 'basestring'>, 'size_gb': <type 'int'>}}"}