I am creating a Ansible Playbook to create VMs in Proxmox server. I need to create 2 VMs (VM1 & VM2) in proxmox, its attributes are stored in another file "list.yaml" and some defaults values are stored in "defaults.yaml". so I used loop condition to create the 2 VMS but I m getting a error as "The error was: 'dict object' has no attribute" (full error is mentioned below.
main Playbook.yaml
---
2 - name: 'Creating VMs in Proxmox'
3 hosts: all
4 vars:
5 list: '/vars/list.yaml'
6 tasks:
7 - name: 'including defualts'
8 include_vars: /vars/defaults.yaml
9 - name: 'including list'
10 include_vars: /vars/list.yaml
11 - name: 'Creating VMs'
12 community.general.proxmox_kvm:
13 api_user: "{{ user }}"
14 api_password: "{{ passwd }}"
15 api_host: "{{ host }}"
16 node: "{{ node_name }}"
17 vmid: "{{ vms.vm_id }}"
18 name: "{{ vms.vm_name }}"
19 vm_type: qemu
20 ostype: l26
21 disks:
22 - size: "{{ vms.vm_storage }}"
23 type: sata
24 storage: local-lvm
25 bootdisk: sata
26 cpu: "{{ vms.vm_cores }}"
27 sockets: "{{ vms.vm_sockets }}"
28 cpuunits: 1000
29 cores: 1
30 ballon: "{{ vms.vm_memory }}"
31 netif: '{"net0":"name=virtio,ip=dhcp,ip6=dhcp,bridge=vmbr1,rate=200"}'
32 localtime: true
33 state: present
34 with_items: "{{ list }}"
defaults.yaml
---
user: "root@pam"
passwd: "root"
host: "pve.localdomain"
node_name: "pve1"
list.yaml
vms:
vm1:
vm_id: "101"
vm_name: "vm1"
vm_cores: "2"
vm_sockets: "1"
vm_memory: "2048"
vm_storage: "20G"
vm2:
vm_id: "102"
vm_name: "vm2"
vm_cores: "2"
vm_sockets: "1"
vm_memory: "2048"
vm_storage: "20G"
Error when i dry run the playbook:
TASK [Creating VMs] ***************************************************************** fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'dict object' has no attribute 'vm_id'\n\nThe error appears to be in '/root/ansible/playbooks/array/playbook.yaml': line 16, column 7, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - name: 'Creating VMs'\n ^ here\n"}
PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************** localhost : ok=3 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
anyone could figure out, what's wrong with the coding? and let me know how can i rectify it.
When you do
vars:
list: '/vars/list.yaml'
this defines a string variable called list with the path of the list.yaml file as a value. It does not load what's in the file.
To do so you can change your dictionary to a list so that your list.yaml looks like this :
vms:
- vm_id: "101"
vm_name: "vm1"
vm_cores: "2"
vm_sockets: "1"
vm_memory: "2048"
vm_storage: "20G"
- vm_id: "102"
vm_name: "vm2"
vm_cores: "2"
vm_sockets: "1"
vm_memory: "2048"
vm_storage: "20G"
Then you can try with this playbook :
- name: 'Creating VMs in Proxmox'
hosts: localhost
vars_files:
- /vars/list.yaml
- /vars/defaults.yaml
tasks:
- name: 'Creating VMs'
community.general.proxmox_kvm:
api_user: "{{ user }}"
api_password: "{{ passwd }}"
api_host: "{{ host }}"
node: "{{ node_name }}"
vmid: "{{ item.vm_id }}"
name: "{{ item.vm_name }}"
vm_type: qemu
ostype: l26
disks:
- size: "{{ item.vm_storage }}"
type: sata
storage: local-lvm
bootdisk: sata
cpu: "{{ item.vm_cores }}"
sockets: "{{ item.vm_sockets }}"
cpuunits: 1000
cores: 1
ballon: "{{ item.vm_memory }}"
netif: '{"net0":"name=virtio,ip=dhcp,ip6=dhcp,bridge=vmbr1,rate=200"}'
localtime: true
state: present
loop: "{{ vms }}"