Hi Andrew, Thanks a lot for your reply. I was able to overcome the issue by creating a config file and adding few details under .ssh folder. I am now able to connect to the server.
Thanks, Lokesh On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 1:30:39 PM UTC+10, Andrew Burrow wrote: > > Possibly start by running the trivial ping module in verbose mode: > > ansible all -m ping -vvvv > > > On Friday, 19 June 2015 00:04:51 UTC+10, Lokesh Vastrad wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am new to Ansible. I have setup Ansible using source from GIT. I am >> able to provision a new EC2 instance. I want to connect to this instance >> using a .pem file and not ssh. >> >> I am able to manually connect to the new instance using the .pem file >> with the command "ssh -i abc.pem ec2-user@instance". However, I am unable >> to connect using ansible parameter. >> >> Command: >> >> ansible-playbook abc.yml --private-key=/path/to/file.pem >> >> Error: ip | FAILED! => SSH encountered an unknown error during the >> execution. >> >> I also created an ansible.cfg file in the current directory and added the >> private key file path parameter. Nothing is working for me. Basically, none >> of the paramters are set from the ansible.cfg file. >> >> Please let me know what I am doing wrong here. >> >> Thanks, >> Lokesh >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/663a877f-2e7e-4152-bf43-8ea33fb6271f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
