I don't know what op did. I've solved this issue by doing: $exec ssh-agent bash followed by: $ssh-add my_ec2_key.pem
Then I am able to run a playbook on the ec2 instance simply by listing the ip in the hosts file. On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 8:44:28 AM UTC-7, Alexey Shabalin wrote: > > Hi Lokesh, > Could you please tell me in more details, what exactly you did to solve > your issue? > > On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 7:53:07 AM UTC+3, Lokesh Vastrad wrote: >> >> 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/255a7517-8084-44cf-a32a-b93cdf620fd8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
