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  • Ansible Playbook help

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    Hi All,

    I'm new yaml and Ansible and I have been trying to experiment with it to some very basic tasks but struggling with it.

    The system I'm using to run the playbook on is CentOS 7 with Ansible 2.8 installed and the ovirt-ansible packages and the python ovirt engine sdk 4 version 4.3, this is connecting to my RHM.

    So far the playbook is just shutting down one VM, the code I have thus far is

    ---
    - name: Shutdown VM
      hosts: localhost
      vars_files:
        - engine_vars.yml
        - password.yml
    
      tasks:
        - name: Login into RHV
          ovirt_auth:
            url: "{{ engine_url }}"
            username: "{{ engine_user }}"
            password: "{{ engine_password }}"
            ca_file: "{{ engine_cafile | default(omit) }}"
            insecure: "{{ engine_insecure | default(true) }}"
          tags:
            - always
    
        - name: Shutdown QSTMS21
          ovirt_vm:
            auth: "{{ ovirt_auth }}"
            name: QSTMS21
            state: stopped
    
        - name: Revoke password
          ovirt_auth:
            state: absent
            ovirt_auth: "{{ ovirt_auth }}"
    

    However I'm wanting to take this a little further but getting stuck on how to do it and would appreciate some help/guidance, I would like the playbook to:
    1. Connect to host
    2. Shutdown all running VM's on that host only
    3. Do a yum update
    3. Reboot Host and wait 10mins for it come back up
    4. Start all VMs.

    It seems I need to use loops but struggling how to get the current VM's and store them as a variable to pass back later.

    Kind Regards
    Jason

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