Ansible : snippet

- name: add search path to /etc/resolv.conf
  lineinfile:
    dest: "/etc/resolv.conf"
    backrefs: True
    state: present
    insertbefore: ^nameserver
    regexp: '(^\s*search(\s+(?!\b{{ item }}\b)[\w\.]+)*)\s*$'
    line: '\1 {{ item }}'
  with_items: "{{ searchpath }}"


About regex_replace

var1: ""{{ var2 | regex_replace ('ABC-(\\d.\\d+)', '\\1) }}"

ansible-vault encrypt_string password123 --ask-vault-pass

- name: revert to a snapshot
  vmware_guest_snapshot:
     datacenter:
     hostname: this is vcenter host name
     username:
     password:
     name: this is vm name
     state: revert
     snapshot_name:
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: power on vm
  vmware_guest:
     datacenter:
     hostname: this is vcenter host name
     username:
     password:
     name: this is vm name
     state: poweredon
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Wait for host to come back
  local_action:
    module: wait_for
      host="{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      port=22
      delay=30
      timeout=300