Ansible & Infoblox return_facts and Variables

[#1]

Hi All

I wrote a simple play to add a host entry using Ansible to Infoblox

As per below all works no problem

---
- hosts: localhost
  connection: local
  gather_facts: true
  tasks:
    - name: Create a Host Record in 11.11.11/24 for "bslnetworks.com"
      nios_host_record:
       name: router1-loopback0.bslnetworks.com
       ipv4:
         - address: 11.11.11.17
       state: present
       provider:
         host: 10.61.246.190
         username: admin
         password: adm1n

Now what im trying to do is set a fact or register a variable to the value of the ip address so that i can reuse that variable value.

I've tried these so far and with no luck

    - name: Set a fact ....
      set_fact:
       loopback0:
         "{{ lookup('nios', 'record:host', filter={'name':'router1-loopback0.bslnetworks.com'}, provider={'host': '10.61.246.190', 'username': 'admin', 'password': 'adm1n'}) }}"
    - debug: var=loopback0


    - name: set another fact
      set_fact:
       newfact=ansible_facts.ipv4.address
    - debug: var=newfact

I can't seem to quite get there and if anyone could offer any help it would be much appreciated

Cheers

RichB

[#2]

I don't know if you ever got the answer to this.

But I did the following (I later use the IP in another playbook in my Tower Workflow):

  tasks:
    - name: Return next available IP address for network X.X.X.X/24
      set_fact:
       vm_ipaddr: "{{ lookup('nios_next_ip', 'X.X.X.X/24', provider=nios_provider)[0] }}"
	   
    - name: Set IP stat for future playbook in workflow
      set_stats:
        data:
          vm_ip:  "{{ vm_ipaddr }}"
    
    - name: Configure an IPv4 host record
      nios_host_record:
        name: "{{ vm_name }}.example.com"
        ipv4addrs:
          - ipv4addr:
              "{{ vm_ipaddr }}"
        state: present
        provider: "{{ nios_provider }}"
        view: XXXXX