Your with_items line is indented too far. It should align with the first
letter of the word "name".
On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 8:57:47 AM UTC-4, Chun-Hung Huang wrote:
>
> Hi Mark Matthews and ALL
>
> I meet the same problem with create Create multiple VMware guests with a
> Playbook.
> Could your share / show your playbook with me?
>
> Or help me to fix my playbook?
>
> My playbook is
>
>
> - name: Testing vsphere_guest module in VMware
> hosts: localhost
> connection: local
> vars_prompt:
> - name: "vcenter_hostname"
> prompt: "Enter vcenter hostname"
> private: no
> default: "vcsa"
> - name: "vcenter_user"
> prompt: "Enter vCenter username"
> private: no
> default: root
> - name: "vcenter_pass"
> prompt: "Enter vcenter password"
> private: yes
> - name: "esxi_hostname"
> prompt: "Enter esxi hostname"
> private: no
> tasks:
> - name: Testing gater facts from vSphere
> vsphere_guest:
> vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
> validate_certs: no
> username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
> password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"
> guest: "{{ item }}"
> from_template: yes
> template_src: openSUSELeap42.1_Template
> esxi:
> datacenter: Lab
> hostname: "{{ esxi_hostname }}"
> with_items:
> - server01
> - server02
>
>
> Error message is
>
> fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "'item' is
> undefined"}
>
>
> item is undefined.
> But I already have with_items ??
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Max
>
> Mark Matthews於 2016年4月5日星期二 UTC+8下午11時16分15秒寫道：
>>
>> Hi guys
>>
>> Just to let you know, I just worked it out.
>>
>> I removed the following variable "serverlist: files/hostnames "
>>
>> And then changed the with_items to the following:
>>
>> with_items:
>> - ans_testserver01
>> - ans_testserver02
>>
>> The playbook now creates both VMs (ans_testserver01 and ans_testserver02)
>> when it is run.
>>
>> I dont know if that is the correct way of doing it, but it seems to be
>> working for me.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 5:00:18 PM UTC, Mark Matthews wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Is it at all possible to create multiple VMware VM's using an Ansible
>>> playbook? Giving each VM a unique name (server1, server2, server3, server4)?
>>>
>>> I can see anyway of doing this using the following playbooks, as it
>>> keeps failing?
>>>
>>> ---
>>> - hosts: 127.0.0.1
>>> connection: local
>>> user: root
>>> sudo: false
>>> gather_facts: false
>>> serial: 1
>>> vars:
>>> vcenter_hostname: UK.server.local
>>> esxhost: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>>> datastore: UK1
>>> network: Web
>>> vmcluster: UKCLUSTER
>>> guest_name: server1, server2, server3, server4
>>> folder: Utilities
>>> notes: Created by Ansible
>>>
>>> tasks:
>>> - name: Create VM from template
>>> vsphere_guest:
>>> vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
>>> username: "{{ username }}"
>>> password: "{{ password }}"
>>> guest: "{{ guest_name }}"
>>> vm_extra_config:
>>> notes: "{{ notes }}"
>>> folder: "{{ folder }}"
>>> from_template: yes
>>> template_src: "{{ vmtemplate }}"
>>> cluster: "{{ vmcluster }}"
>>> resource_pool: "/Resources"
>>>
>>> esxi:
>>> datacenter: UK
>>> hostname: "{{ esxhost }}"
>>>
>>> Any ideas or suggestions would be really appreciated.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>>
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