Ansible: Create a Tag in vCenter

Automating VMware using Ansible

In my previous article, I explained how to create a Tag Category in vCenter. Today I will explain how to create a tag in vCenter using the same category.

The community.vmware Ansible collection provides a module called vmware_tag to manage tags. With this module user can create, delete, and update the tags.

You can read more about the tag creation in the documentation.

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Let us now, create a tag called backup_tag with backup_category as a tag category.

The playbook like this -

A Playbook to create a tag with the given category id

Once you run the playbook, you will presented with tag id and information about the state as follows —

TASK [Create a tag] ***************************************************************************
changed: [localhost] => {"changed": true, "tag_status": {"msg": "Tag 'backup_tag' created.", "tag_id": "urn:vmomi:InventoryServiceTag:3214373c-5fc3-4fc9-862d-87a1208d2c00:GLOBAL"}}

Tag “backup_tag” is created with the given Tag Category “backup_category”

You can also use the vmware_tag to update and delete the tag.

Conclusion —

In the next article we will discuss how to apply a tag to the given object.

Thanks for reading and happy automating.