I am running a ansible playbook to get the status of virtual machine in azure my playbook look likes

- name: Get facts by name
  azure_rm_virtualmachine_facts:
    resource_group: startAnsible
    name: startAnsible-vm

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is there any method to get the facts/information of a virtual machine in azure.

CodePudding user response：

Your code is a task but from the error, you are trying to execute it as a play.

Playbook files contains a list of plays and each play execute a list of tasks (and/or roles).

So you need to put your task in a play:

- name: The play
  hosts: <the target machine from your inventory>
  tasks:
    - name: Get facts by name
      azure_rm_virtualmachine_facts:
        resource_group: startAnsible
        name: startAnsible-vm

CodePudding user response：

Within the initial error message the correct module is referenced azure_rm_virtualmachine_info to get the virtual machine facts, whereby in the code snippet a probably old alias is used.

Further Links

• Ansible Issue #38081 - "New module request: azure_rm_virtualmachine_facts"