Allow filtering of hostvars to not always include ALL properties/tags

[bartowl]

SUMMARY

Currently in order to create group based on tags or customValue I have to gather_tags: true or add customValue to properties.
This results in many extra variables added as hsotvars that are actually not needed. For few host inventories this is at most a cosmetic issue. But when your inventory goes to a range ov thousands of hosts, every extra hostvar results in significant time increase for each job running over entire directory. And properties and tags add A LOT of those hostvars, that are not otherwise even used.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

vms inventory plugin

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

It would be great to include a way to filter what properties gets into hostvars. I tried using compose to cut those variables to zero length, but it shows up that compose is applied BEFORE keyed_groups and this breaks creating groups based on tags by custom rules.

Also - as community.vmware.vmware_vm_inventory is deprecated and this is the recommended successor you should at least clearly point out all differences, like the one that filters use inverse logic compared to previous implementation...