I'll answer my own question - yes "with_items" works, and in the order in
which the items are listed.
On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 3:38:03 PM UTC-4, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
>
> Hello, all.
>
> I need to create a playbook which will include shutting down, then
> restarting, six virtual machines. The shut-downs/start-ups must be done on
> the machines in specific order (start-ups in reverse order of shut-downs).
> Since they are virtual, I was thinking of using the vmware_guest module. I
> know that it works for a single machine at a time, such as:
>
> ---
>
> - hosts: localhost
> gather_facts: false
>
> vars:
> vsphere_host: 10.0.101.17
> vsphere_username: user
> vsphere_password: password
> vsphere_guestname: vmname
> vm_state: restarted #poweredon shutdownguest restarted
>
> tasks:
> - name: boot vmware guest
> vmware_guest:
> hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}"
> username: "{{ vsphere_username }}"
> password: "{{ vsphere_password }}"
> validate_certs: no
> name: "{{ vsphere_guestname }}"
> wait_for_ip_address: no
> state: "{{ vm_state }}"
>
> But, is there a way to specify all the machines to be shut down/brought
> up, in the order that I'd like that to happen? If so, how?
>
> Thanks.
>
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