Alphabetic order from network

[gvp81]

Hello,
First of all, I want to say thank you for your module! Very useful module and I use it!
I have a suggestion.
I see that in new versions of the module when creating a NIC for a virtual machine, they are sorted in alphabetical order.
I think this is not a very good idea.
For example:
I deploy a server with 3 NIC and I want "PortGroup" for "Management-Network" to always be associated with the first interface in the system, ens192.
According to alphabetical sorting, "PortGroup" for "Management-Network" can be either on ens192 or ens256, and so on.
This complicates further use.
For example, there is a software/service that tries to work with ens192 interfaces, considering it "Management-Network", and so on.

Best regards,

[damnsam]

Use network_delimiter added back in Nov 2023 https://github.com/Terraform-VMWare-Modules/terraform-vsphere-vm/pull/157, it's in the current version. Two features were added, this would be referencing the second. Basically, if you set the delimiter to some non-used character, it will use the whole string when sorting alphabetically, but use the text after the delimiter to assign the portgroup name to the first/second interface (and so on).

network_delimiter = ":"
network           = { 
  "1:Management-Network" = ["10.1.1.1"],
  "2:Backup-Network"     = ["192.168.1.1"]
}

Now you have it sorted by the numbers, but the portgroup assignment will be Management-Network for the first interface and Backup-Network for the second.