I have been playing around a lot more with the embedded Ansible feature of CloudForms 4.6. While this functionality was introduced in version 4.5, the ability to call a playbook method from a state machine in version 4.6 opens up a lot of possibilities.
One thing I was caught up on though was how to query VMDB collections for a specific item from within a playbook. Initially I thought it was going to be necessary to iterate through every item in the collection, something that would require a large amount of API calls and become totally impractical for larger collections. Luckily my initial thoughts were incorrect – the expansion and filtering capabilities allow for a single API query.
