Ansible: How to use multiple vCenter? - ansible

Question

I use Ansible to take snapshots of VM in VMware vCenter.
If vcenter only one, then it works fine, but what if there are many vcenter?
How to describe multiple Vmware vCenter in the current role?
My current example for one vcenter:
# cat snapshot.yml
- name: ROLE_update
hosts: all
gather_facts: False
become: yes
become_method: su
become_user: root
vars_files:
- /ansible/vars/privileges.txt
roles:
- role: snapshot
# cat tasks/main.yml
- block:
- name: "Create vmware snapshot of {{ inventory_hostname }}"
vmware_guest_snapshot:
hostname: "{{vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
datacenter: "{{datacenter_name}}"
folder: find_folder.yml
name: "{{inventory_hostname }}"
state: present
snapshot_name: snap check
validate_certs: False
delegate_to: localhost
register: vm_facts
# cat find_folder.yml
- name: Find folder path of an existing virtual machine
hosts: all
gather_facts: False
vars:
ansible_python_interpreter: "/usr/bin/env python3"
tasks:
- name: "Find folder for VM - {{ vm_name }}"
vmware_guest_find:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
validate_certs: False
name: "{{ vm_name }}"
delegate_to: localhost
register: vm_facts
# cat vars/main.yml variables declared
vcenter_hostname: <secret>
vcenter_username: <secret>
vcenter_password: <secret>
Thanks!

Answer 1

Is having the variables for the different vcenter in different ".yml" files an option? If so, you could easily call for those variables at runtime execution like:
ansible-playbook your_playbook.yml --extra-vars "your_vcenter_1.yml"
There are other ways i could think of, like using tags in your playbook for each task, and invoke your playbook using a specific tag. On each task with the different tags, on the import_role, you could define the new variables like this:
tasks:
- import_tasks: your_role.yml
vars:
vcenter_hostname: your_vcenter_1
tags:
- vcenter1