On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 12:25 PM Kai Stian Olstad <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thursday, 22 November 2018 12:22:42 CET Mark Zhitomirski wrote:
> > Traditional approach is to leave it to a human operator and warn him of
> a
> > new host key.
> > This way is a no-go for automation and testing, a workaround is to
> disable
> > host-key checks with ansible_ssh_extra_args: '-o
> StrictHostKeyChecking=no'
> > like here:
> >
> https://github.com/mz0/ansible-digitalocean/blob/186eb84df/launch.yml#L53
> >
> > It seems to me that a better way would be to auto-add host-key if this
> is a
> > wholly new host (and maybe check for key uniqueness).
>
> Auto add host for only new host is
> StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new
>
That's interesting, I'll check that.

>
>
> > My understanding is that this is a job for a certain Ansible plugin,
> cause
> > host-key handling is not dependent on specific cloud/provisioning module
> > (digital_ocean_droplet in my case)
> > So far I couldn't find any plugin of this sort and kindly ask for
> pointers.
>
> Ansible i relying on ssh and doesn't handle this for the Ansible
> controller since it have no way of knowing if the host key is valid or not.
>
> To do this in a secure manner you need to inject a know or a sign ssh host
> key in the instance at creation time.
>
I do not pursuit 100% control of host-key, there's little point to do so
for a public cloud host instance.
Basic sanity check is OK for me and for majority of cloud users I suppose.
Hope I'll find a way to it using your pointer.
Thanks Kai!


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