Get private IP for Azure scale set VMs in Ansible - azure

How can you get the private IP for a VM in am Azure scale set in Ansible?
None of these seem to have the info:
azure_rm_virtualmachinescaleset_facts
azure_rm_virtualmachinescalesetinstance_facts
azure_rm_virtualmachine_facts
azure_rm_subnet_facts
azure_rm_networkinterface_facts

in order to get the IPs of my ScaleSet instances, I take the little detour via the PrivateDNS of Azure with auto-registration. As soon as the machines are available, they will be updated in the DNS.
Code Snippet:
- name: Fetch IPs from ScaleSet instances
hosts: localhost
connection: local
vars:
resource_group: "test-lbs1"
vmss_name: "vmss"
zone_name: "my.private.dns.zone"
tasks:
#############################################
# Fetch all Instances from Scaleset
#############################################
- name: List all of the instances
azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualmachinescalesetinstance_info:
resource_group: "{{ resource_group }}"
vmss_name: "{{ vmss_name }}"
register: __instances
#############################################
# Fetch IP from PrivateDNS Record
#############################################
- name: Get network interfaces
azure.azcollection.azure_rm_privatednsrecordset_info:
resource_group: "{{ resource_group }}"
zone_name: "{{ zone_name }}"
relative_name: "{{ item.computer_name }}"
record_type: A
with_items: "{{ __instances.instances }}"
register: __network_ips
- debug:
var: __network_ips

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Deploying multiple VM's with ansible

I'm learning ansible to create Linux VM's on azure and I used this sample playbook in this link (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/ansible/vm-configure?tabs=ansible) to create one VM on azure. If I want to deploy 10 VM's exactly like this with ansible-playbook how should I do it? Please help. Thanks in advance
Update: I tried it like this but the script fails after creating two public IP addresses.
- name: Create Azure VM
hosts: localhost
connection: local
tasks:
- name: Create resource group to hold VM
azure_rm_resourcegroup:
name: TestingResource
location: eastus
- name: Create virtual network
azure_rm_virtualnetwork:
resource_group: TestingResource
name: testingvnet
address_prefixes: "10.0.0.0/16"
- name: Add subnet
azure_rm_subnet:
resource_group: TestingResource
name: testingsubnet
address_prefix: "10.0.1.0/24"
virtual_network: testingvnet
- name: Create public IP address
azure_rm_publicipaddress:
resource_group: TestingResource
allocation_method: Static
name: "{{ item }}" #CHANGE HERE
loop:
- testingpublicIP2
- testingpublicIP3
register: output_ip_address
#- name: Dump public IP for VM which will be created
#debug:
#msg: "The public IP is {{ output_ip_address.state.ip_address }}."
- name: Create Network Security Group that allows SSH
azure_rm_securitygroup:
resource_group: TestingResource
name: TestingSecurityGroup
rules:
- name: SSH
protocol: Tcp
destination_port_range: 22
access: Allow
priority: 1001
direction: Inbound
- name: Create virtual network interface card
azure_rm_networkinterface:
resource_group: TestingResource
name: "{{ item }}" #CHANGE HERE
loop:
- TestingNIC2
- TestingNIC3
virtual_network: testingvnet
subnet: testingsubnet
public_ip_name: "{{ item }}" #CHANGE HERE
loop:
- testingpublicIP2
- testingpublicIP3
security_group: TestingSecurityGroup
- name: Create VM
azure_rm_virtualmachine:
resource_group: TestingResource
name: "{{ item }}" #CHANGE HERE VM NAME
loop:
- TestingResource2
- TestingResource3
vm_size: Standard_B2s
admin_username: admin
admin_password: password#123
ssh_password_enabled: true
network_interfaces: "{{ item }}" #CHANGE HERE
loop:
- TestingNIC2
- TestingNIC3
image:
offer: UbuntuServer
publisher: Canonical
sku: '18.04-LTS'
version: latest
You can use the loops function to create multiple VMs through ansible as you showed in the question, but you'd better use a list variable to loop so that you don't need to write all the elements every time. And the variables also can be used for other things like resource group name, location, and so on that use multiple times in the code. Here is the example:
- hosts: localhost
vars:
resource_group: myResourceGroup
...
tasks:
- name: Create resource group to hold VM
azure_rm_resourcegroup:
name: "{{ resource_group }}"
location: eastus
...
And the variable for the loop:
loop: "{{ var_list }}"
I found out it's quite easy with terraform to deploy multiple VM's on azure just by changing one variable in the configuration file, Here's the configuration file that i used (https://github.com/RichardPhilipsRoy/terraform-azure-linuxVMs)

Trying to Create a new Azure VM using a Snapshot of a managed disk with Ansible

I am trying to be able to deploy multiple machines using a GOLD vm snapshot through ansible. I need it to be like this:
- name: Creating Virtual Machine as requested.
azure_rm_virtualmachine:
resource_group: "{{ virtualMachineRG }}"
name: "{{ virtualMachineName }}"
vm_size: "{{ virtualMachineSize }}"
location: "{{ location }}"
managed_disk_type: "{{ managed_Disk_Type }}"
storage_account: "{{ storageAccount }}"
os_type: "{{ os_type }}"
image: "{{image}}"
os_disk_size_gb: "{{ os_disk_size_gb }}"
admin_username: "{{ adminUsername }}"
admin_password: "{{ adminPassword }}"
network_interfaces: "{{ virtualMachineName }}-nic"
I need the IMAGE or the entire disk to work similarly to creating a snapshot then creating a VM off the snapshot OR Create a clone of a managed disk and using that instead of the basic IMAGE of windows 10. This would be like having a snapshot that needs the same thing for 10 different VMs based on the request so its not the image that I would need but the GOLD Snapshot in place of the image which has operating system and everything installed. Is this doable? I have tried everything I can find through just searches and ansible documentation. This will deploy a new VM from the snapshot of the GOLD managed disk and this gets updated regularly and is set to the machine that controls the GOLD snapshot.

How to run an ansible role after running task first in azure

We have a Playbook to create a Linux VM in Mincrosoft azure following a role to do post install things like installing some applications packages. Our playbook is running fine and able to deploy the VM in azure, However the second role which is to configure the VM after deployment is not running on the VM as, we are not able to pass the vm (IP/Hostname) to the second role.
What we wan to achieve is to deploy VM using ansible playbook/role, Run the roles after the machine is deployed to configure the business specific tasks.
Path:
Below is the path where all ansible plays and roles are coming. here roles folders contains all the post install tasks, i believe there will be a better way there Keeping the test-creatVM-sur.yml there itself within role but as a learner i'm bit struggling..
$ ls -l /home/azure1/ansible_Dir
-rw-r-----. 1 azure1 hal 1770 Sep 17 17:03 test-creatVM-sur.yml
-rw-r-----. 1 azure1 hal 320 Sep 17 22:30 licence-test.yml
drwxr-x---. 6 azure1 hal 4096 Sep 17 21:46 roles
My main Play file:
$ cat licence-test.yml
---
- name: create vm
hosts: localhost
connection: local
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
vars:
Res_Group: "some_value"
LOCATION: "some_value"
VNET: "some_value"
IMAGE_ID: "some_value"
SUBNET: "some_value"
KEYDATA: "some_value"
DISK_SIZE: 100
DISK_TYPE: Premium_LRS
tasks:
- name: include task
include_tasks:
file: creattest_VM.yml <-- This portion works fine
- hosts: "{{ VM_NAME }}" <-- this portion does not work as it's not able to fetch the newly created VM name.
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
roles:
- azure_license
...
Play (test-creatVM-sur.yml) which created VM in azure is below:
---
- name: Create Network Security Group that allows SSH
azure_rm_securitygroup:
resource_group: "{{ Res_Group }}"
location: "{{ LOCATION }}"
name: "{{ VM_NAME }}-nsg"
rules:
- name: SSH
protocol: Tcp
destination_port_range: 22
access: Allow
priority: 100
direction: Inbound
- name: Create virtual network interface card
azure_rm_networkinterface:
resource_group: "{{ Res_Group }}"
location: "{{ LOCATION }}"
name: "{{ VM_NAME }}-nic1"
subnet: "{{ SUBNET }}"
virtual_network: "{{ VNET }}"
security_group: "{{ VM_NAME }}-nsg"
enable_accelerated_networking: True
public_ip: no
state: present
- name: Create VM
azure_rm_virtualmachine:
resource_group: "{{ Res_Group }}"
location: "{{ LOCATION }}"
name: "{{ VM_NAME }}"
vm_size: Standard_D4s_v3
admin_username: automation
ssh_password_enabled: false
ssh_public_keys:
- path: /home/automation/.ssh/authorized_keys
key_data: "{{ KEYDATA }}"
network_interfaces: "{{ VM_NAME }}-nic1"
os_disk_name: "{{ VM_NAME }}-osdisk"
managed_disk_type: "{{ DISK_TYPE }}"
os_disk_caching: ReadWrite
os_type: Linux
image:
id: "{{ IMAGE_ID }}"
publisher: redhat
plan:
name: rhel-lvm78
product: rhel-byos
publisher: redhat
- name: Add disk to VM
azure_rm_manageddisk:
name: "{{ VM_NAME }}-datadisk01"
location: "{{ LOCATION }}"
resource_group: "{{ Res_Group }}"
disk_size_gb: "{{ DISK_SIZE }}"
managed_by: "{{ VM_NAME }}"
- name: "wait for 3 Min"
pause:
minutes: 3
...
Edit:
I managed to define the vars into a separated name_vars under include_vars.
---
- name: create vm
hosts: localhost
connection: local
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
tasks:
- include_vars: name_vars.yml
- include_tasks: creattest_VM.yml
- name: Apply license hardening stuff
hosts: "{{ VM_NAME }}"
become: yes
become_method: sudo
become_user: root
roles:
- azure_license
...
It works after doing some dirty hack but that doesn't looks proper as i am creating an invetory test to putting there VM_NAME as well as an extra variable with -e below.
$ ansible-playbook -i test -e VM_NAME=mylabhost01.hal.com licence-test.yml -k -u my_user_id
Any help will be much appreciated.

how to get VMware folder from cli

I am writing an ansible script to shutdown several VM's when they are not needed. I am able to do that when I know where the VM lives. The problem is that the VM could move around to different folders if it vmotions to a different host. According to the article below I need to know the folder of the VM which again could change. Not sure how to get the folder automatically. Is there a way to do this with Ansible and or Python then feed it into the script?
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/vmware_guest_powerstate_module.html
- name: Set the state of a virtual machine to poweroff
vmware_guest_powerstate:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
validate_certs: no
folder: "/{{ datacenter_name }}/vm/my_folder"
name: "{{ guest_name }}"
state: powered-off
delegate_to: localhost
register: deploy
First get information about the VM using vmware_guest_info module and then pass the folder in the next task like so,
- name: Gather info about the vmware guest vm
vmware_guest_info:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}"
validate_certs: no
name: "{{ guest_name }}"
delegate_to: localhost
register: vm_info
- name: Set the state of a virtual machine to poweroff
vmware_guest_powerstate:
hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
validate_certs: no
folder: "{{ vm_info['hw_folder']}}"
name: "{{ guest_name }}"
state: powered-off
delegate_to: localhost
register: deploy

Error Unsupported kubernetes version when using Ansible Playbook to install AKS

I created an Ansible-Playbook to install AKS on Ubuntu .
Flowing microsoft tutorial
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ansible/ansible-create-configure-aks
Yml file:
- name: Create Azure Kubernetes Service
hosts: localhost
connection: local
vars:
resource_group: myResourceGroup
location: eastus
aks_name: myAKSCluster
username: azureuser
ssh_key: "your_ssh_key"
client_id: "your_client_id"
client_secret: "your_client_secret"
tasks:
- name: Create resource group
azure_rm_resourcegroup:
name: "{{ resource_group }}"
location: "{{ location }}"
- name: Create a managed Azure Container Services (AKS) cluster
azure_rm_aks:
name: "{{ aks_name }}"
location: "{{ location }}"
resource_group: "{{ resource_group }}"
dns_prefix: "{{ aks_name }}"
linux_profile:
admin_username: "{{ username }}"
ssh_key: "{{ ssh_key }}"
service_principal:
client_id: "{{ client_id }}"
client_secret: "{{ client_secret }}"
agent_pool_profiles:
- name: default
count: 2
vm_size: Standard_D2_v2
tags:
Environment: Production
But it given error:
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unsupported
kubernetes version. Expected one of [u'1.11.9', u'1.11.8', u'1.10.12',
u'1.10.13', u'1.12. 8', u'1.13.5', u'1.12.7'] but got None"}
Then i switched to another Kubernetes Service which its version is 1.12.8
But it still given this error.
How can i fix it? Or how can i change the version of kubernetes service ?
you need to specify kubernetes_version according to the module wiki. this is also what the error text is telling you
- name: Create a managed Azure Container Services (AKS) cluster
azure_rm_aks:
name: "{{ aks_name }}"
location: "{{ location }}"
resource_group: "{{ resource_group }}"
dns_prefix: "{{ aks_name }}"
kubernetes_version: 1.13.5
xxx

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