Thanks, Vladimir!
That worked really well.
It generated the file much faster than the lineinfile alternative.
Thank you as well for the templating doc/link.
After I figure out what info my "client" wants to extract from VMware,
building a report will be the next step and so far I'm planning to use
templates for that.
Alex
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM Vladimir Botka <vbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:16:17 -0600
> Alex Wanderley <alex.wander...@edmonton.ca> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > OK, answering my own question, I was able to send the parsed vm_list
> > content to a file using this task:
> >
> > - name: Copy list to file
> > ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
> > dest: <path_to_file_here>
> > line: "{{ item['guest_name'] }}"
> > state: present
> > create: yes
> > loop: "{{ vm_list.virtual_machines }}"
> >
> > There would be a different/better way of accomplishing that...?
>
> Try this
>
> - copy:
> dest: <path_to_file_here>
> content: |
> {% for i in vm_list.virtual_machines %}
> {{ i.guest_name }}
> {% endfor %}
>
> See
>
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_templating.html
>
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> Vladimir Botka
>
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