Ansible and Vsphere

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Robert Williams

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Feb 16, 2017, 5:03:20 PM2/16/17

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All , i have searched many sites but i am able to get this playbook to work. I am trying to build a vm via ansible and i get the following error message below. I have also posted my playbook. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

___PLAYBOOK____

---

- hosts: 127.0.0.1

connection: local

user: root

sudo: false

gather_facts: false

serial: 1

vars_prompt:

- name: "pw"

prompt: "MOAR password"

private: yes

tasks:

- vsphere_guest:

vcenter_hostname: vsphere.example.com

username: rewilliams

password: "{{pw}}"

guest: testansible

state: powered_on

vm_disk:

disk1:

size_gb: 1

type: thin

datastore: Comoy-SAN

vm_nic:

nic1:

type: vmxnet3

network: Example_Application_10.10.10.0_24_VLAN10

network_type: standard

vm_hardware:

memory_mb: 1024

num_cpus: 1

osid: oracleLinux64Guest

scsi: paravirtual

esxi:

datacenter: Example - New City, TX

hostname: esxsvr021.example.com

____ERROR___

task path: /etc/ansible/create_vm.yaml:15

Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/core/cloud/vmware/vsphere_guest.py

<127.0.0.1> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root

<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487280769.35-182699925301242 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1487280769.35-182699925301242="` echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487280769.35-182699925301242 `" ) && sleep 0'

<127.0.0.1> PUT /tmp/tmpGFvqc6 TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487280769.35-182699925301242/vsphere_guest.py

<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod u+x /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487280769.35-182699925301242/ /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487280769.35-182699925301242/vsphere_guest.py && sleep 0'

<127.0.0.1> EXEC /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python2 /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487280769.35-182699925301242/vsphere_guest.py; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1487280769.35-182699925301242/" > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'

An exception occurred during task execution. The full traceback is:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/tmp/ansible__DEP7T/ansible_module_vsphere_guest.py", line 1909, in <module>

main()

File "/tmp/ansible__DEP7T/ansible_module_vsphere_guest.py", line 1880, in main

config_check("vm_disk", vm_disk, proto_vm_disk, module)

File "/tmp/ansible__DEP7T/ansible_module_vsphere_guest.py", line 1646, in config_check

if diff.recursive_diff():

File "/tmp/ansible__DEP7T/ansible_module_vsphere_guest.py", line 1617, in recursive_diff

if k in self.check_dict[key]:

TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {

"changed": false,

"failed": true,

"invocation": {

"module_name": "vsphere_guest"

"module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/tmp/ansible__DEP7T/ansible_module_vsphere_guest.py\", line 1909, in <module>\n main()\n File \"/tmp/ansible__DEP7T/ansible_module_vsphere_guest.py\", line 1880, in main\n config_check(\"vm_disk\", vm_disk, proto_vm_disk, module)\n File \"/tmp/ansible__DEP7T/ansible_module_vsphere_guest.py\", line 1646, in config_check\n if diff.recursive_diff():\n File \"/tmp/ansible__DEP7T/ansible_module_vsphere_guest.py\", line 1617, in recursive_diff\n if k in self.check_dict[key]:\nTypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable\n",

"module_stdout": "",

"msg": "MODULE FAILURE"

}

to retry, use: --limit @/etc/ansible/create_vm.retry

PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************

127.0.0.1 : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1

Nehal J Wani