Definitely a bit of a Rube Goldberg setup there, but no reason it shouldn't
work. The big problem is that you need to be using the Windows modules to
manage the Windows host (eg, win_ping, not ping).
On Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 11:39:16 AM UTC-7, Taylor Jackwood wrote:
>
> Afternoon!
>
> I am attempting to set up an Ansible Docker container for managing both
> other containers running in Docker, as well as my host machine (Running
> Windows 10).
>
> Using Ansible 2.8, I'm attempting to get the SSH connection to my host
> machine to work, as using WinRM isn't ideal for my scenario. I have set up
> OpenSSH Server on my machine, and done all of the steps to allow SSH
> tunneling from my container to my host machine. I can even go so far as to
> "docker exec -it ansible bash" into my container, then run an "ssh
> dockerhost" command, and it successfully uses my SSH keys to authenticate
> and SSH back into my host machine.
>
> My problem comes when I attempt to use Ansible from inside the container
> to ping my host machine. Whenever I try to run "ansible dockerhost -m
> ping", I'm met with this error:
>
>
> ==========================================================================================================================
>
> ==========================================================================================================================
>
> *dockerhost | FAILED! => {*
> * "changed": false,*
> * "module_stderr": "Exception calling \"Create\" with \"1\"
> argument(s): \"At line:4 char:21*
> *+ def _ansiballz_main():*
> *+ ~*
> *An expression was expected after '('.*
> *At line:13 char:27*
> *+ except (AttributeError, OSError):*
> *+ ~*
> *Missing argument in parameter list.*
> *At line:15 char:7*
> *+ if scriptdir is not None:*
> *+ ~*
> *Missing '(' after 'if' in if statement.*
> *At line:22 char:7*
> *+ if sys.version_info < (3,):*
> *+*
> * ~*
> *Missing '(' after 'if' in if statement.*
> *At line:22 char:30*
> *+ if sys.version_info < (3,):*
> *+*
> * ~*
> *Missing expression after ','.*
> *At line:22 char:25*
> *+ if sys.version_info < (3,):*
> *+*
> * ~*
> *The '<' operator is reserved for future use.*
> *At line:24 char:32*
> *+ MOD_DESC = ('.py', 'U', imp.PY_SOURCE)*
> *+ ~*
> *Missing expression after ','.*
> *At line:24 char:33*
> *+ MOD_DESC = ('.py', 'U', imp.PY_SOURCE)*
> *+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
> *Unexpected token 'imp.PY_SOURCE' in expression or statement.*
> *At line:24 char:32*
> *+ MOD_DESC = ('.py', 'U', imp.PY_SOURCE)*
> *+*
> * ~*
> *Missing closing ')' in expression.*
> *At line:24 char:46*
> *+ MOD_DESC = ('.py', 'U', imp.PY_SOURCE)*
> *+*
> * ~*
> *Unexpected token ')' in expression or statement.*
> *Not all parse errors were reported. Correct the reported errors and try *
> *again.\"*
> *At line:6 char:1*
> *+ $exec_wrapper = [ScriptBlock]::Create($split_parts[0])*
> *+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
> * + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [],
> MethodInvocationException*
> * + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParseException*
>
> *The expression after '&' in a pipeline element produced an object that
> was not *
> *valid. It must result in a command name, a script block, or a
> CommandInfo *
> *object.*
> *At line:7 char:2*
> *+ &$exec_wrapper*
> *+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
> * + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException*
> * + FullyQualifiedErrorId : BadExpression*
> * ",*
> * "module_stdout": "",*
> * "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",*
> * "rc": 1*
> *}*
>
>
> ==========================================================================================================================
>
> ==========================================================================================================================
>
> I've also attempted this same ping test using the win_ping module, but get
> a different failed result. The command hangs for an extended period of
> time, then eventually returns with this error:
>
>
> ==========================================================================================================================
>
> ==========================================================================================================================
>
> *<dockerhost> (1, '', '#< CLIXML\r\n\nProcess is terminated due to
> StackOverflowException.\n')*
> *<dockerhost> Failed to connect to the host via ssh: #< CLIXML*
>
> *Process is terminated due to StackOverflowException.*
> *The full traceback is:*
> *Traceback (most recent call last):*
> * File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/task_executor.py", line
> 144, in run*
> * res = self._execute()*
> * File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/task_executor.py", line
> 648, in _execute*
> * result = self._handler.run(task_vars=variables)*
> * File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/action/normal.py", line
> 46, in run*
> * result = merge_hash(result, self._execute_module(task_vars=task_vars,
> wrap_async=wrap_async))*
> * File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py", line
> 917, in _execute_module*
> * res = self._low_level_execute_command(cmd, sudoable=sudoable,
> in_data=in_data)*
> * File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py", line
> 1060, in _low_level_execute_command*
> * rc, stdout, stderr = self._connection.exec_command(cmd,
> in_data=in_data, sudoable=sudoable)*
> * File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/ssh.py", line
> 1188, in exec_command*
> * stderr = _parse_clixml(stderr)*
> * File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/shell/powershell.py",
> line 46, in _parse_clixml*
> * clixml = ET.fromstring(data.split(b"\r\n", 1)[-1])*
> * File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1311, in XML*
> * parser.feed(text)*
> * File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1659, in feed*
> * self._raiseerror(v)*
> * File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1523, in
> _raiseerror*
> * raise err*
> *ParseError: syntax error: line 2, column 0*
>
> *dockerhost | FAILED! => {*
> * "msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.",*
> * "stdout": ""*
> *}*
>
>
> ==========================================================================================================================
>
> ==========================================================================================================================
>
> So I'm at a bit of a loss. I can independently confirm that the SSH setup
> works, since I can SSH into and out of the Ansible container at will. I
> also believe I set everything up correctly in terms of using the
> experimental SSH connection to a Windows host.
>
> My questions are these:
>
> 1) Is the ping command supposed to work with the Windows SSH feature? Or
> am I looking to just make the win_ping module work correctly?
> 2) Is there something I'm missing in my setup? Or is this possibly a bug I
> should report on the GitHub?
>
> Thanks! And let me know if I can provide any additional details.
>
> Ansible Version: 2.8
> Host Machine: Windows 10 Pro
>
> =============================================================
> My hosts file:
> *[host]*
> *dockerhost ansible_user=TJackwood*
>
> *[host:vars]*
> *ansible_connection=ssh*
> *ansible_shell_type=cmd*
> *ansible_python_interpreter='C:\Program Files\Python\Python3.6.4'*
>
> *[dockerContainers]*
> *ansible ansible_connection=local*
> *apache-wls ansible_connection=docker*
> *oracle11g ansible_connection=docker*
> *mock-vadir ansible_connection=docker*
> *alt-idp ansible_connection=docker*
> =============================================================
> My .ssh config file within the Ansible container:
> *Host **
> * # disable host key checking: avoid asking for the keyprint
> authenticity*
> * StrictHostKeyChecking no*
> * UserKnownHostsFile /root/.ssh/known_hosts*
> * #enable hashing known_host file*
> * HashKnownHosts yes*
> * # IdentityFile allows to specify exactly which private key I wish to
> use for authentification*
> * IdentityFile /root/.ssh/ch33-shared-rsa*
>
> *Host dockerhost*
> * HostName host.docker.internal*
> * User TJackwood*
> * Port 22*
> =============================================================
>
>
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