Vagrant <3's Ansible

Hi!
Is possible that you have a error like this when you exec $ ansible vb -m ping -i ansible/hosts.ini:

192.168.33.10 | FAILED! => {
    "failed": true,
    "msg": "to use the 'ssh' connection type with passwords, you must install the sshpass program"
}

[Solution]
brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kadwanev/bigboybrew/master/Library/Formula/sshpass.rb

In case the`
ssh vagrant@192.168.33.10`
command fails with

Received disconnect from 192.168.33.10 port 22:2: Too many authentication failures for vagrant
Disconnected from 192.168.33.10 port 22```

It means you have too many private keys. Just run the command like this instead:

ssh vagrant@192.168.33.10 -o PubkeyAuthentication=no`

And to overcome the same error with ansible - append this to your ~/.ssh/config:

Host 192.168.33.10
  PubkeyAuthentication no```

I have not found an option to pass this to ansible...

After running into a few issues like getting the error "ValueError: insecure string pickle" using the ansible 2.4.2.0 discovered that it needs the sshpass library installed, you can use homebrew to install it but needed some extra googling to make it work on OS X, https://gist.github.com/aru...

Hey @diego82 ,

You share awesome examples with us, thanks a lot! Yeah, "[vb:vars]" is nice solution, I like this way because we don't need to write all the parameters in a one line, so it increases readability! But keep in mind that all those variables apply to the all hosts listed in [vb], which is not a problem for now though.

What about "ansible_python_interpreter" parameter - interesting idea! I haven't tested it yet, does it mean that we don't need to install "python-apt" package at all, right? If so - it's very sweet!

P.S. Nice trick with "host_key_checking = False" ;)

Cheers!

Haha, don't worry about spamming, we always welcome good comments! ;)

That's great, we'll add a note with a few steps about how to use Ubuntu 16.04 box instead of 14.04 one - thanks to your comments.

Cheers!

Yo there!

Thanks for the notes! I have a few questions:

1) On Ubuntu 16.4, was python-apt not already installed (is that why you installed it)? If not, we can add that as one of the first tasks in our playbook :).

2) You're right about there being a slightly better to use this :). We can set the private key in our hosts file:

192.168.33.10 ansible_user=ubuntu ansible_ssh_private_key_file=./.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key

Try this out - let me know if it works! And based on your answers, I can add some notes to the tutorial! It would be nice to mention some of the important differences on other versions of Ubuntu.

Cheers!

Hey @diego82 ,

Thank you for the kind words! Really, Ansible is much easier than Chef and quite fun )

And yes, we'll do some interaction with AWS like creating EC2 instance with Ansible and deploy app to it at the end of this course, so stay tuned with us ;)

Cheers!

It makes sense to use ansible with Docker, or the dockerfile is the same thing that ansible does?