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This is a second part of Deploy create Virtual Network vNET in Azure cloud using Ansible, in this part I am creating multiple vNets with single Ansible script. All the info and details related to new vNet added in separate vnet variable yml file in json format as shown below.

Next in below ansible yaml script, I am using foreach loop on the provided json information and create mutliple Virtual Network on the Microsoft Azure. You can use ansible-playbook command to deploy this yaml playbook.

Download this mutli-azvnets.zip here or it is also available on github.com/janviudapi.

# multi-azvnets.yaml - Ansible yaml code to create multiple AZ vnets
---
- name: Create Azure vNets (Virtual Networks)
  hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: false

  collections:
    - azure.azcollection

  tasks:
    - name: Include variable file
      ansible.builtin.include_vars:
        file: vnet_var.yml
        name: vnet_var

    - name: Create a vNets (Virtual Networks)
      azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualnetwork:
        resource_group: "{{ item.resource_group }}"
        name: "{{ item.name }}"
        location: "{{ item.location }}"
        address_prefixes_cidr: "{{ item.address_prefixes_cidr }}"
          # - "10.23.0.0/16"
          # - "10.24.0.0/16"
      loop: "{{ vnet_var.vnet_resources }}"


# vnet_var.yaml - json variables info of AZ vNet resource
---
# resource_group: vcloud-lab.com
# vnet_name: global_vnet_eastus
# location: eastus
# vnet_address_prefixes_cidr: 10.10.0.0/16
# subnet01_name: prod01-10.10.1.x
# subnet01_address_prefix: 10.10.1.0/24

vnet_resources:
  - {
      resource_group: rg-globalnetwork-prod,
      name: prod-vnet-wus3-01,
      vnet_address_prefixes_cidr: ["10.252.0.0/16"],
      location: West US3
    }
  - {
      resource_group: "rg-globalnetwork-prod",
      name: "prod-vnet-weu-01",
      vnet_address_prefixes_cidr: ["10.253.0.0/16"],
      location: "West Europe"
    }

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