here little exsample how to deploy ubuntu ova into vcenter viaansible and cloud-init.iso

readmee

yo need 2 change vcenter credentials, datastores, datacenters
virtual machine ip adreses, users and you public key
and run
ansible-playbook -i rke.yaml make-seed-and-deploy-ubuntu.yml 

make-seed-and-deploy-ubuntu.yml

- hosts: localhost
  become: no
  vars:
    vcenter_username: vcenter_user@vsphere.local
    vcenter_password: "vspheresupersecretpassword"
  tasks:
  - name: Seed directory
    file:
      path: "{{lookup('env', 'PWD')}}/seed/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}"
      state: directory
    loop: "{{ query('inventory_hostnames', 'all') }}"  
  - name: Cloud config meta-data file
    copy:
      dest: "{{lookup('env', 'PWD')}}/seed/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}/meta-data"
      content: |
        instance-id: {{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}
        local-hostname: localhost      
    loop: "{{ query('inventory_hostnames', 'all') }}"

  - name: Cloud config user-data file
    copy:
      dest: "{{lookup('env', 'PWD')}}/seed/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}/user-data"
      content: |
        #cloud-config
        hostname: {{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}} 
        users:
          - default
          - name: {{hostvars[item].ansible_user}}
            ssh-authorized-keys: put your key here
            sudo: ['ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL']
            groups: sudo
            lock_passwd: false
            shell: /bin/bash
            plain_text_passwd: ubuntsupersecretpassword
    loop: "{{ query('inventory_hostnames', 'all') }}" 
  - name: Cloud config network-config file
    copy:
      dest: "{{lookup('env', 'PWD')}}/seed/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}/network-config"
      content: |
        version: 2
        ethernets:
          ens192:
            match:
              name: ens192
            set-name: ens192
            dhcp4: false
            addresses:
              - {{hostvars[item].ansible_host}}/24
            gateway4: 10.0.0.254
            nameservers:
              search: [local, cluster.local]
              addresses: [8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1] 
    loop: "{{ query('inventory_hostnames', 'all') }}"
  - name: Create an seed ISO file
    community.general.iso_create:
      vol_ident: cidata
      src_files:
        - "{{lookup('env', 'PWD')}}/seed/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}/user-data"
        - "{{lookup('env', 'PWD')}}/seed/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}/meta-data"
        - "{{lookup('env', 'PWD')}}/seed/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}/network-config"
      dest_iso: "{{lookup('env', 'PWD')}}/seed/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}.iso"
      interchange_level: 4
      joliet: 3
    loop: "{{ query('inventory_hostnames', 'all') }}"
  - name: Copy file to datastore folder called iso
    community.vmware.vsphere_copy:
      hostname: '{{ hostvars[item].hostname }}'
      username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
      password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
      validate_certs: no
      src: "{{lookup('env', 'PWD')}}/seed/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}.iso"
      datacenter: "{{hostvars[item].datacenter}}"
      datastore: "{{hostvars[item].datastore}}"
      path: iso/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}.iso
    loop: "{{ query('inventory_hostnames', 'all') }}"
    delegate_to: localhost 
  - name: Deploy VMware ubuntu 20.04 OS OVA
    vmware_deploy_ovf:
      hostname: '{{ hostvars[item].hostname }}'
      username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
      password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
      datacenter: "{{hostvars[item].datacenter}}"
      datastore: "{{hostvars[item].datastore}}"
      name: "{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}"    
      validate_certs: no
      disk_provisioning: thin
      networks: 
        "VM Network": "VLAN-Mgmt"
      ova: /home/user/ansible/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova
      allow_duplicates: no
      power_on: no
      fail_on_spec_warnings: no
    loop: "{{ query('inventory_hostnames', 'all') }}"
    delegate_to: localhost 
  - name: Customize virtual machine
    vmware_guest:
      hostname: '{{ hostvars[item].hostname }}'
      username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
      password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
      datacenter: "{{hostvars[item].datacenter}}"
      datastore: "{{hostvars[item].datastore}}"
      validate_certs: no
      name: "{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}" 
      disk:
      - size_gb: 40
        type: thin      
      hardware:
        memory_mb: 8192
        num_cpus: 4      
      cdrom:
          - controller_number: 0
            unit_number: 0
            state: present
            type: iso
            iso_path: "[{{hostvars[item].datastore}}] iso/{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}.iso"
      networks: 
      - name: "VLAN-Mgmt"
      - name: "VLAN-VMs-Traffic"
    loop: "{{ query('inventory_hostnames', 'all') }}"
    delegate_to: localhost           
  - name: Power on
    vmware_guest:
      hostname: '{{ hostvars[item].hostname }}'
      username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
      password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
      datacenter: "{{hostvars[item].datacenter}}"
      datastore: "{{hostvars[item].datastore}}"
      validate_certs: no
      name: "{{hostvars[item].inventory_hostname}}"       
      state: poweredon 
      customvalues: 
        - key: "disk.EnableUUID"
          value: "TRUE"
    loop: "{{ query('inventory_hostnames', 'all') }}"
    delegate_to: localhost   

rke.yaml

nodes:
  hosts:
    DR-RKE:
      ansible_host: 10.0.0.209
      datastore: Datastore03
      hostname: 10.0.0.102
      datacenter: DR-DC
    HQ-RKE:
      ansible_host: 10.0.0.205
      datastore: Datastore03
      hostname: 10.11.253.101
      datacenter: HQ-DC
  vars:      
    ansible_user: ubuntusername