Ansible vmware_guest module with_items how to loop the debug msg output - ansible

Question

I'm trying to deploy some virtual machines which seems to be working fine, and I can get the output to a debug screen, but what I would like is to be able to filter the output a bit and show hostname and IP address really. But I'm not sure how to loop the output! I've tried:
- debug:
msg: {{ item.instance.ipv4 }}
with_items: _result.results
Here is my playbook:
---
- name: Clone VMs
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: false
vars_files:
- vars.yml
- secrets.yml
tasks:
- name: Clone multiple VMs from template
local_action:
module: vmware_guest
hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ username }}"
password: "{{ password }}"
validate_certs: no
folder: "{{ folder }}"
template: "{{ item.template }}"
name: "{{ item.name }}"
esxi_hostname: "{{ esxi_hostname }}"
datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}"
state: "{{ state }}"
# customization_spec: "{{ customization_spec }}"
with_items: "{{ servers }}"
register: _result
- name: Output
debug:
msg: "{{ _result.results }}"
#with_items: _result.results.msg
In my vars I have the following (amongst other things)
servers:
- { name: centos8_01, template: centos8 }
- { name: centos7_01, template: centos7-minimal }
The output in the debug currently is:
ok: [localhost] => {
"msg": [
{
"ansible_loop_var": "item",
"changed": false,
"failed": false,
"instance": {
"annotation": "",
"current_snapshot": null,
"customvalues": {},
"guest_consolidation_needed": false,
"guest_question": null,
"guest_tools_status": "guestToolsRunning",
"guest_tools_version": "10346",
"hw_cluster": "Cluster",
"hw_cores_per_socket": 1,
"hw_datastores": [
"SSD"
],
"hw_esxi_host": "******",
"hw_eth0": {
"addresstype": "assigned",
"ipaddresses": [],
"label": "Network adapter 1",
"macaddress": "00:50:56:a3:4b:ba",
"macaddress_dash": "00-50-56-a3-4b-ba",
"portgroup_key": null,
"portgroup_portkey": null,
"summary": "10.0.0.0"
},
"hw_files": [
"[SSD] centos8_01/centos8_01.vmx",
"[SSD] centos8_01/centos8_01.nvram",
"[SSD] centos8_01/centos8_01.vmsd",
"[SSD] centos8_01/centos8_01.vmdk"
],
"hw_folder": "/Learn/vm/L2L",
"hw_guest_full_name": "CentOS 8 (64-bit)",
"hw_guest_ha_state": null,
"hw_guest_id": "centos8_64Guest",
"hw_interfaces": [
"eth0"
],
"hw_is_template": false,
"hw_memtotal_mb": 4096,
"hw_name": "centos8_01",
"hw_power_status": "poweredOn",
"hw_processor_count": 2,
"hw_product_uuid": "4223465f-32ce-38ab-0d0e-a92f187b7d4d",
"hw_version": "vmx-14",
"instance_uuid": "5023b456-cda0-1fa6-c0a5-67d57ede5707",
"ipv4": null,
"ipv6": null,
"module_hw": true,
"moid": "vm-12173",
"snapshots": [],
"vimref": "vim.VirtualMachine:vm-12173",
"vnc": {}
},
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"annotation": null,
"cdrom": [],
"cluster": null,
"convert": null,
"customization": {},
"customization_spec": null,
"customvalues": [],
"datacenter": "******",
"datastore": null,
"disk": [],
"esxi_hostname": "******",
"folder": "L2L",
"force": false,
"guest_id": null,
"hardware": {},
"hostname": "******",
"is_template": false,
"linked_clone": false,
"name": "centos8_01",
"name_match": "first",
"networks": [],
"password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
"port": 443,
"proxy_host": null,
"proxy_port": null,
"resource_pool": null,
"snapshot_src": null,
"state": "poweredon",
"state_change_timeout": 0,
"template": "centos8",
"use_instance_uuid": false,
"username": "******#vsphere.local",
"uuid": null,
"validate_certs": false,
"vapp_properties": [],
"wait_for_customization": false,
"wait_for_ip_address": false
}
},
"item": {
"name": "centos8_01",
"template": "centos8"
}
},
{
"ansible_loop_var": "item",
"changed": false,
"failed": false,
"instance": {
"annotation": "",
"current_snapshot": null,
"customvalues": {},
"guest_consolidation_needed": false,
"guest_question": null,
"guest_tools_status": "guestToolsRunning",
"guest_tools_version": "10309",
"hw_cluster": "Corby",
"hw_cores_per_socket": 1,
"hw_datastores": [
"SSD"
],
"hw_esxi_host": "******",
"hw_eth0": {
"addresstype": "assigned",
"ipaddresses": [
"10.0.0.137",
"fe80::e1b4:c7c5:8268:4e7b"
],
"label": "Network adapter 1",
"macaddress": "00:50:56:a3:f8:9f",
"macaddress_dash": "00-50-56-a3-f8-9f",
"portgroup_key": null,
"portgroup_portkey": null,
"summary": "VM Network"
},
"hw_files": [
"[SSD] centos7_01/centos7_01.vmx",
"[SSD] centos7_01/centos7_01.nvram",
"[SSD] centos7_01/centos7_01.vmsd",
"[SSD] centos7_01/centos7_01_2.vmdk"
],
"hw_folder": "/Learn/vm/L2L",
"hw_guest_full_name": "CentOS 6 (64-bit)",
"hw_guest_ha_state": null,
"hw_guest_id": "centos6_64Guest",
"hw_interfaces": [
"eth0"
],
"hw_is_template": false,
"hw_memtotal_mb": 2048,
"hw_name": "centos7_01",
"hw_power_status": "poweredOn",
"hw_processor_count": 1,
"hw_product_uuid": "4223d5ef-9363-03d4-8aea-7b1822b21e36",
"hw_version": "vmx-14",
"instance_uuid": "5023eea9-85ac-1c18-48bb-e0b63339c9fa",
"ipv4": "10.0.0.137",
"ipv6": null,
"module_hw": true,
"moid": "vm-12174",
"snapshots": [],
"vimref": "vim.VirtualMachine:vm-12174",
"vnc": {}
},
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"annotation": null,
"cdrom": [],
"cluster": null,
"convert": null,
"customization": {},
"customization_spec": null,
"customvalues": [],
"datacenter": "******",
"datastore": null,
"disk": [],
"esxi_hostname": "******",
"folder": "******",
"force": false,
"guest_id": null,
"hardware": {},
"hostname": "******",
"is_template": false,
"linked_clone": false,
"name": "centos7_01",
"name_match": "first",
"networks": [],
"password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
"port": 443,
"proxy_host": null,
"proxy_port": null,
"resource_pool": null,
"snapshot_src": null,
"state": "poweredon",
"state_change_timeout": 0,
"template": "centos7-minimal",
"use_instance_uuid": false,
"username": "******",
"uuid": null,
"validate_certs": false,
"vapp_properties": [],
"wait_for_customization": false,
"wait_for_ip_address": false
}
},
"item": {
"name": "centos7_01",
"template": "centos7-minimal"
}
}
]
}

Answer 1

There are multiple ways to do this.
A loop is one of them:
- debug:
msg:
hostname: "{{ item.invocation.module_args.hostname }}"
ip: "{{ item.instance.ipv4 }}"
loop: "{{ _result.results }}"
loop_control:
label: "item.invocation.module_args.hostname"
This would yield:
ok: [localhost] => (item=item.invocation.module_args.hostname) =>
msg:
hostname: '******'
ip: ''
ok: [localhost] => (item=item.invocation.module_args.hostname) =>
msg:
hostname: '******'
ip: 10.0.0.137
Another solution is to use JMESPath and the json_query filter:
- debug:
var: >-
_result.results
| json_query('[].{
hostname: invocation.module_args.hostname, ip: instance.ipv4
}')
This would yield:
ok: [localhost] =>
? |-
_result.results | json_query('[].{
hostname: invocation.module_args.hostname, ip: instance.ipv4
}')
: - hostname: '******'
ip: null
- hostname: '******'
ip: 10.0.0.137