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I wanted to try to add some of the topics that came up in the Q&A as issues so that hopefully I could come back to them. One person asked if this could be used with HashiCorp's packer to deploy images. Resolution of this would mean including an example of how that might work in the playbook if that is possible.

Hello, was just trying to use some of the options in your playbook but I am unable to set the IP correctly via sed command.

The VM is being created and booting correctly. There are no errors being shown either.

• hosts: 127.0.0.1
  connection: local
  user: root
  sudo: false
  gather_facts: false
  serial: 1
  vars:
  app_name: "testvmappsetip"
  server_ip: "10.10.10.245"
  vcenter_username: "user"
  vcenter_hostname: "vsphere.example.com"
  app_datacenter: "Datacenter - City, MO"
  cluster: "Datacenter - Production_Intel"
  vm_root_user: "root"
  vars_prompt:

  • name: "vcenter_password"
    prompt: "Enter Password"
    private: yes
    tasks:

  • name: "PROVISION | Create VM from Template"
    vmware_guest:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    validate_certs: "false"
    datacenter: "{{ app_datacenter }}"
    cluster: "{{ cluster }}"
    state: "poweredon"
    name: "{{ app_name }}"
    template: app_default_official1

  • name: "Network | Change the IP address"
    local_action:
    module: vmware_vm_shell
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username}}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    vm_id: "{{ app_name }}"
    vm_username: "{{ vm_root_user }}"
    vm_password: password@123
    vm_shell: /bin/sed
    vm_shell_args: " -i 's/10.10.10.244/{{ server_ip }}/' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0"
    vm_shell: /sbin/reboot

AS of at least Ansible 2.4 there are some cool yet simple features that were added such as:

• ability to add notes to a VM
• no requirement to specify the ESXi host to deploy to
• better inventory/folder handling
• support for marking a VM as a template to convert it

Implement some of the basic like adding notes or tags with examples to this repo, and specify it is for >2.4.

This is a variable initially used to control application of the resizing tasks, but early on we changed the way this task is applied and call it conditionally at the end of the provisioning play. I just noticed this so these really don't do anything to control the task, but if you don't have resize defined as true in group_vars/all.yml or somewhere else it will break stuff.