Sort a list of strings that contain numbers in ansible

Question

Is there a way to properly sort this list of virtual machine names? Azure and Ansible reports them as follows:

dev-xxx-myvm-1
dev-xxx-myvm-10
dev-xxx-myvm-2
dev-xxx-myvm-3
dev-xxx-myvm-4
dev-xxx-myvm-5
dev-xxx-myvm-6
dev-xxx-myvm-7
dev-xxx-myvm-8
dev-xxx-myvm-9

RESULT:

dev-xxx-myvm-1
dev-xxx-myvm-2
dev-xxx-myvm-3
dev-xxx-myvm-4
dev-xxx-myvm-5
dev-xxx-myvm-6
dev-xxx-myvm-7
dev-xxx-myvm-8
dev-xxx-myvm-9
dev-xxx-myvm-10
[...]

Answer 1

the easiest solution is to use community.general.version_sort.

- name: "Getting deployment state"
  block:
  - name: "Getting deployment state"
    azure.azcollection.azure_rm_virtualmachine_info:
      resource_group: myRG
    register: existing_vms
  - name: Saving all VM names in vm_names
    ansible.builtin.set_fact:
      vm_names: "{{ vm_names | default([]) + [item.name] }}"
    loop: "{{ existing_vms.vms }}"
  - name: Sorting the VM names in vm_names_sorted
    ansible.builtin.set_fact:
      vm_names_sorted: "{{ vm_names | community.general.version_sort }}"