Recently while working with one of the old ansible server where I wanted to automation to get the list of VMware vCenter virtual machines list, and the ansible playbook was failing due to few prerequisite, In below script I was using community.vmware.vmware_vm_info ansible module/plugin to get the list of VMs.
Another Error: Ansible Error couldn't resolve module vmware.vmware_rest
- name: Virutal Machine - Snapshot, Shutdown, Upgrade Hardware, verify, Power on
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
tasks:
- name: Gather all registered virtual machines
community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:
hostname: '{{ secret.hostname }}'
username: '{{ secret.username }}'
password: '{{ secret.password }}'
vm_type: vm
validate_certs: no
delegate_to: localhost
register: vminfo
- debug:
var: vminfo
While running ansible playbook to list of VMs on the vCenter I was receiving below error.
[root@centos02 ansible]$ ansible-playbook update.yml [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all' ERROR! couldn't resolve module/action 'community.vmware.vmware_vm_info'. This often indicates a misspelling, missing collection, or incorrect module path. The error appears to be in '/root/ansible/update.yml': line 48, column 7, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem. The offending line appears to be: - name: Gather all registered virtual machines ^ here
To resovled this first I checked one of the prerequisite whether pyvmomi python package is installed, which was not present.
pip show pyvmomi
I installed the package, with pip since I was running python 2.7 version. if you are using python 3.x version you can use pip3 instead of pip.
[root@centos02 ansible]$ pip install pyvmomi DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality. Requirement already satisfied: pyvmomi in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (7.0.1) Requirement already satisfied: requests>=2.3.0 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from pyvmomi) (2.20.1) Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.7.3 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from pyvmomi) (1.14.0) Requirement already satisfied: certifi>=2017.4.17 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from requests>=2.3.0->pyvmomi) (2019.11.28) Requirement already satisfied: chardet<3.1.0,>=3.0.2 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from requests>=2.3.0->pyvmomi) (3.0.4) Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<1.25,>=1.21.1 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from requests>=2.3.0->pyvmomi) (1.24.3) Requirement already satisfied: idna<2.8,>=2.5 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from requests>=2.3.0->pyvmomi) (2.7) [root@centos02 ansible]$ pip show pyvmomi DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality. Name: pyvmomi Version: 7.0.1 Summary: VMware vSphere Python SDK Home-page: https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi Author: VMware, Inc. Author-email: [email protected] License: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License Location: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages Requires: requests, six Required-by: [root@centos02 ansible]$
Another prerequisite missing was comminity.vmware collection module which need to be installed using ansible-galaxy.
[root@centos02 ansible]$ ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware Process install dependency map Starting collection install process Installing 'community.vmware:1.7.0' to '/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/vmware
After executing the ansible yml playbook again All was good and I got the
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