Question:
I want to use a public aws keypair .pem file for running ansible playbooks. I want to do this without changing my ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and I can’t create a new keypair from my current ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and apply it to the ec2 instances I am trying to change.
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$ ansible --version ansible 1.9.6 configured module search path = None |
Here is my hosts file (note that my actual ip is replaced with 1.2.3.4). This is probably the issue since I need a way to set a public key variable and use that:
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[all_servers:vars] ansible_ssh_private_key_file = ./mykeypair.pem [dashboard] 1.2.3.4 dashboard_domain=my.domain.info |
Here is my playbook:
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--- - hosts: dashboard gather_facts: False remote_user: ubuntu tasks: - name: ping ping: |
This is the command I am using to run it:
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ansible-playbook -i ./hosts test.yml |
It results in the following error:
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fatal: [1.2.3.4] => SSH Error: Permission denied (publickey). while connecting to 1.2.3.4:22 |
There is no problem with my keypair:
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$ ssh -i mykeypair.pem ubuntu@1.2.3.4 'whoami' ubuntu |
What am I doing wrong?
Answer:
Ok little mistakes I guess you can’t have spaces in host file variables and need to define the group you are applying the vars to. This hosts file works with it all:
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[dashboard:vars] ansible_ssh_private_key_file=./mykeypair.pem [dashboard] 1.2.3.4 dashboard_domain=my.domain.info |