Hitting Bigfix REST API from ansible

Usage and Config Patch
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Hello,

I’m trying to automate patching cycles for VMWare VMs. The VMWare APIs are all terrible, but interacting with VMWare through ansible is nice enough.

Has anyone written any custom modules for ansible to hit the Bigfix REST API? I mainly need to push actions (to deploy baselines) and poll the status of actions.

Cheers,
Luke

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You’re using ansible to manipulate the VMWare APIs?

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Yes, using the ansible vmware and vmware_guest modules:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/list_of_cloud_modules.html#vmware