Ansible Get vSphere Virtual Machines

[David Foley]

Hi All,

Trying to Output only the Virtual Machine Name: but having issues with the Json output

---
    - name: Running Create Virtual Machine Playbook
      hosts: localhost
      gather_facts: false
      connection: local
      tasks:
      - name: Get VMs
        vmware_vm_info:
          validate_certs: no
          hostname:
          username:
          password:
          vm_type: vm
        delegate_to: localhost
        register: vminfo
      - debug:
          var: vminfo.virtual_machines.guest_name
      - local_action: copy content={{ vminfo.virtual_machines.guest_name }} dest=/srv/ansible/vmname.json
     

I'm currently getting the following Error:

TASK [debug] *****************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "vminfo.virtual_machines.guest_name": "VARIABLE IS NOT DEFINED!"
}

This is the JSON output if i just do a var vminfo

{
  "failed": false,
  "virtual_machines":
  [
    {
      "guest_name": "",
      "guest_fullname": "CentOS 7 (64-bit)",
      "esxi_hostname": "e",
      "tags": [],
       "cluster": "",
        "vm_network":
        {
          "":
          {
            "ipv4": [""],
            "ipv6": []
            },
            "":
            {"ipv4": [""],
              "ipv6": []},
              "": {"ipv4": [""], "ipv6": ["f"]}}, "mac_address": [""], "attributes": {}, "power_state": "poweredOn", "ip_address": "", "uuid": "4212ca75-8a0a-e9dc-95bc-3ee10ea6af11"
},


               {
"guest_name": "", "guest_fullname": "Microsoft Windows 8 (64-bit)",

[Gobi]

Hi David,

virtual_machines is a list.

This will work:

- debug:
    var: vminfo.virtual_machines[0].guest_name

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[David Foley]

Hi Gobi

that outputs the first on the Json List, how would i do a loop ?

i Tried with_items

 - debug:
        msg: "{{ item.tags }}"
      with_items:
        - "{{ vm_info.virtual_machines.guest_name }}"

[Gobi]

Hi David,
You can do a loop like this

- debug:
msg: "{{ item.tags }}"
with_items:
- "{{ vm_info.virtual_machines }}"

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[David Foley]

Hi Gobi,

I was using that above, but it outputs all information,

I was trying to only output the guest_name with the with_item loop 

[Mani]

Hi David,

You can try the below loop:

- debug:

    msg: "{{ item.guest_name }}"

  with_items:

    - "{{ vm_info.virtual_machines }}"