Ansible playbook to extract virtual machine and disk details from oVirt/RHVM

query-vm.yaml

# file: query-vms.yml
# prerequisites:
#   sudo dnf --enablerepo=rhv-4.4-manager-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms install "python*ovirt-engine-sdk4"
#   or
#   sudo dnf install https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.4/rpm/el8/x86_64/python3-ovirt-engine-sdk4-4.4.15-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
# description:
#   Simple playbook to extract basic details of VMs
# example invocation:
#   ansible-playbook query-vms.yml

---
- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no

  vars:
    output_dir: .
    rhvm_fqdn: rhvm.example.com
    rhvm_username: admin@internal
    rhvm_password: myPassw0rd

  tasks:
    - name: Record the date and time
      command: date +%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S
      register: date_cmd

    - name: Create RHV auth token
      ovirt_auth:
        url: https://{{ rhvm_fqdn }}/ovirt-engine/api
        insecure: yes
        username: "{{ rhvm_username }}"
        password: "{{ rhvm_password }}"

    - name: Query VMs
      ovirt_vm_info:
        auth: "{{ ovirt_auth }}"
        fetch_nested: true
      register: vm_result

    - name: Query VM disks
      ovirt_disk_info:
        auth: "{{ ovirt_auth }}"
        fetch_nested: true
      register: disk_result

    - name: Remove RHV auth token
      ovirt_auth:
        ovirt_auth: "{{ ovirt_auth }}"
        state: absent

    - name: Save VM results
      copy:
        dest: "{{ output_dir }}/query-results-vms-{{ date_cmd.stdout }}.json"
        content: "{{ vm_result.ovirt_vms }}" 
      register: vm_result_filename

    - name: Save disk results
      copy:
        dest: "{{ output_dir }}/query-results-disks-{{ date_cmd.stdout }}.json"
        content: "{{ disk_result.ovirt_disks }}" 
      register: disk_result_filename

    - name: Create a tar.gz file
      archive:
        path:
          - "{{ vm_result_filename.dest }}"
          - "{{ disk_result_filename.dest }}"
        dest: "{{ output_dir }}/query-results-{{ date_cmd.stdout }}.tar.gz"
        remove: yes