vmware_provision.yml

---
- name: Create VMs
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - name: Set VCenter parameters
      ansible.builtin.include_vars: login_info.yml

    - name: Set VCenter parameters
      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
        content_library_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        content_library_username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        content_library_password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        content_library_validate_certs: false
        content_library_datacenter_name: "Datacenter"
        content_library_datastore_name: "pool1-shared-datastore1"
        content_library_type: local
        content_library_name: hackathon-library
        content_library_description: "Test content library"
        content_library_cluster_name: "New Cluster"
        vm: "test"
        template_name: "rhel9-template"
        template_host: "pool1-controller1.practice.redhat.com"

    - name: Create Content Library
      ansible.builtin.import_role:
        name: cloud.vmware_ops.content_library

    - name: Create template from vm in content library
      vmware.vmware.content_template:
        validate_certs: false
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        template: "{{ template_name }}"
        library: "{{ content_library_name }}"
        vm_name: "{{ vm }}"
        host: "{{ template_host }}"
      register: __res

    - name: Get list of content libraries IDs
      community.vmware.vmware_content_library_info:
        hostname: "{{ content_library_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ content_library_username }}"
        password: "{{ content_library_password }}"
        validate_certs: "{{ content_library_validate_certs }}"
      register: content_library_ids

    - name: Get content library info
      community.vmware.vmware_content_library_info:
        hostname: "{{ content_library_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ content_library_username }}"
        password: "{{ content_library_password }}"
        validate_certs: "{{ content_library_validate_certs }}"
        library_id: "{{ item }}"
      loop: "{{ content_library_ids.content_libs }}"
      register: content_library_details

    - name: debug content_library_details
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        var: content_library_details

    - name: "Get {{ content_library_name }} id"
      set_fact:
        content_library_id: "{{ (content_library_details.results | map(attribute='content_lib_details') | flatten | selectattr('library_name', '==', content_library_name) | first).library_id }}"

    - name: Get the list of items of the library
      vmware.vmware_rest.content_library_item_info:
        vcenter_validate_certs: false
        vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        vcenter_username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        vcenter_password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        library_id: "{{ content_library_id }}"
      register: lib_items

    - name: Use the name to identify the item
      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
        my_template_item: "{{ lib_items.value | selectattr('name', 'equalto', template_name)|first }}"

    - name: debug my_template_item
      ansible.builtin.debug:
        var: my_template_item

    - name: set connection info
      ansible.builtin.set_fact:
        connection_args:
          vcenter_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
          vcenter_username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
          vcenter_password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
          vcenter_validate_certs: false

    - name: Provision a VM from template
      ansible.builtin.import_role:
        name: cloud.vmware_ops.provision_vm
      vars:
        provision_vm_name: "mytest"
        provision_vm_template: "rhel9-template"
        provision_vm_hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        provision_vm_username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
        provision_vm_password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
        provision_vm_validate_certs: false
        provision_vm_folder: "/Datacenter/vm/hackathon-folder"
        provision_vm_datacenter: "Datacenter"
        provision_vm_cluster: "New Cluster"