Deploy VMware VM Template and run script locally on VM

[Brian Watters]

I was able to deploy VMs from a template and they get renamed but the hostname doesn't actually get updated. I am still trying to figure out how to do that but I have a bash script that I run on the VM, SUSE 15 Linux server, which joins to a domain and adds to SUSE Manager. For the life of me I cannot figure out what I need to add to my Ansible playbook so when these VMs get deployed from the template the hostname gets updated with what I configured and that script gets run with the appropriate switches.

Any guidance or help would be appreciated.

[david...@mycit.ie]

Can you share the Ansible Script that you have, Are you using the customization parameter? 

Also, have you tried using some sort of Pipeline where you can run a second Script using Ansible.builtin.hostname

[Abhijeet Janwalkar]

i did something like that recently with Windows Server 2019.

Used module community.vmware.vmware_guest:

and under

     customization:

      hostname: '{{ vm.Name }}'

to run various commands and install agents i used 

  community.vmware.vmware_vm_shell:

In my case the agents were already on the template.

But there is another module which will help you copy files to VM without using network.

Hope that helps.

Abhi

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