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The documentation for Dynamic Inventory makes mention of so many dynamic inventories, but none for VMware.
I really liked the feature of tagging servers in Amazon EC2 and was hoping to re-create a similar system in our VMware environment.
Fetch all servers in vSphere with tags "environment=testing" and "application=helloworld" and run this Ansible playbook on them.
Is there a dynamic inventory for VMware in Ansible?
There are two in the official Ansible repository:
Refer to the code and the configuration files (vmware.ini, vmware_inventory.ini) for usage details.
Alternatively you can fetch the VMs facts with vmware_vm_facts module and create your own in-memory inventory with add_host.
Fetch all servers in vSphere with tags "environment=testing" and "application=helloworld"
Jul 18, 2019 at 23:10