Fetch VM Info from Ansible

[Pugazhendhi Ramakrishnan]

I'm using the "vmware_vm_info" module to fetch the VM name with the below playbook and it is working fine but if I try to add the ?guest_name=='vm_name' as variable it is not working. Can you please suggest how to generalize the play by adding the variable to the guestn_name?

---
- name: Check if the VM existing the Vcenter
  hosts: localhost
  vars_files: 1credentials.yml
  vars:
    vm_name: server2
  tasks:
    - name: Checking VM details
      block:
        - name: Get virtual machine info
          vmware_vm_info:
            hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
            username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
            password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
            validate_certs: no
          delegate_to: localhost
          register: vm_info

        - debug:
            msg: "{{ item.guest_name }}"
          with_items:
            - "{{ vm_info.virtual_machines | json_query(query) }}"
          vars:
            query: "[?guest_name=='server2']"

[Dick Visser]

Try backticks:

             query: "[?guest_name==`server2`]"

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[Pugazhendhi Ramakrishnan]

No I mean, it is working if I give 'server2' but if I give the variable defined in the vars: section it is not working.

[Walter Rowe]

Where are you specifying the vm_name in vmware_vm_info? ansible-doc shows this is a required parameter.

- name: Gather one specific VM

  community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:

    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'

    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'

    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'

    vm_name: 'vm_name_as_per_vcenter'

  delegate_to: localhost

  register: vm_info

In your example you would need to use "{{ vm_name }}" as the value of the vm_name parameter.

- name: Gather one specific VM

  community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:

    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'

    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'

    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'

    vm_name: '{{ vm_name }}'

  delegate_to: localhost

  register: vm_info

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