Hello Team,

I have created a small playbook to configure ip address on vm machine which is not on a network. basically, my playbook add network card to vm and configure static ip address on it. I am using vmware_vm_shell ansible module.

When i use root user and password. it configured ip address. how do i use a normal user with sudo access to configure ip address.

Please find below playbook.

ansible_sudo_user: is sudo user.

---
- hosts: all
gather_facts: false
become: yes
become_method: su
become_user: root
tasks:
- name: Adding Network Card Into VM {{ inventory_hostname }}
vmware_guest:
hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
validate_certs: no
name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
state: present
force: yes
datacenter: "{{ data_center }}"
folder: "{{ folder_name }}"
networks:
- name: "{{ guest_network }}"
type: static
device_type: vmxnet3
start_connected: True
delegate_to: localhost
connection: local
tags:
- add_nic

- name: Power on VM {{ inventory_hostname }}
vmware_guest:
hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
validate_certs: no
name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
state: poweredon
connection: local
delegate_to: localhost

- name: Wait for VMware tools to become available {{ inventory_hostname }}
vmware_guest_tools_wait:
hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
validate_certs: no
name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
folder: "{{ folder_name }}"
delegate_to: localhost
connection: local


- name: Configure Network IP Address {{ inventory_hostname }}
vmware_vm_shell:
hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}"
username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
datacenter: "{{ data_center }}"
cluster: "{{ cluster_name }}"
validate_certs: False
folder: "{{ folder_name }}"
vm_id: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
vm_username: "{{ ansible_sudo_user }}"
vm_password: "{{ ansible_sudo_pass }}"
vm_shell: /usr/bin/sudo
vm_shell_args: ' /usr/sbin/ifconfig "{{ nic1 }}" "{{ ansible_host }}" netmask "{{ mask }}" broadcast "{{ gw }}" up'
vm_shell_cwd: "/usr/sbin"
delegate_to: localhost
connection: local
tags:
- ip_config

The playbook is practically unreadable. All leading spaces have been collapsed; do you expect people to read a YAML file without indentation?

Please edit your question and put code tags around the code. See my signature for instructions.

Having said that, your description is lacking. Which command did you issue to run this playbook, and what output did you get? Any failure messages? Is there a difference between the outputs of the successful and failing playbook runs?

Did you try adding --become to the ansible-playbook command?

As far as I know, you don't normally run playbooks as the root user. It seems to me that something is fundamentally wrong with your Ansible setup.