Hi Raphael,
Happy to hear you got it working! I just played around a bit more, and
apparently, there is a way even without adding your host to the inventory.
Here an example, which I ran on Ansible 2.9.17:
- name: Remote Port Test
hosts: localhost
tasks:
- name: delegate command
command: whoami
delegate_to: rhel8
vars:
ansible_ssh_port: 2222
That said, I still think it is in general a good idea to add all the hosts
which the playbook interacts with to the inventory and configure all the
connection parameters there. You may wanna use delegate_to in combination
with connection plugins other than SSH (e.g. WinRM), which require
different configuration parameters.
Happy weekend and best regards,
Juerg
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 5:38 PM Raphael Ebner <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Juerg
>
> thank you very much, it is working fine with add_host :)
>
> Is that worth a feature request, to use remote_port (similar naming to
> remote_user) together with delegate_to?
>
> Best Regards,
> Raphael
>
> Juerg Ritter schrieb am Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2021 um 22:23:15 UTC+1:
>
>> Hi Raphael,
>>
>> Oh I see. One solution might be to use the add_host module, which allows
>> you to add hosts to your inventory on the fly (it won't be persisted). Just
>> add a task which adds your target host for the delegation along with the
>> ansible_port variable before your delegate_to task.
>>
>> The documentation can be found here:
>>
>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/add_host_module.html
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>> -- Juerg
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:13 PM Raphael Ebner <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Juerg,
>>>
>>> Yes, the host is part of my Inventory.
>>> I tried it and set delegate_to to the inventory hostname, which woks
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> But I've multiple inventories, and all hosts of each inventory needs
>>> this delegated_to task. How can I handle it for all other inventories,
>>> because I can't add this host to all inventories?
>>> Have you an idea?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Raphael
>>>
>>> Juerg Ritter schrieb am Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2021 um 21:46:25 UTC+1:
>>>
>>>> Hi Raphael,
>>>>
>>>> Is the host you are trying to delegate the task to part of your
>>>> inventory?
>>>>
>>>> My next try would be to add this host in the inventory and specify the
>>>> custom port for this particular host as a host variable. An example can be
>>>> found here:
>>>>
>>>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_inventory.html#assigning-a-variable-to-one-machine-host-variables
>>>>
>>>> I hope that helps!
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Juerg
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:30 PM Raphael Ebner <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Community,
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to delegate one task in my play to another remote linux ssh
>>>>> host with delegate_to. So far so good. But now the problem: my remote host
>>>>> has a custom ssh port. When running the play I always get "Failed to
>>>>> connect to the host via ssh: ssh: connect to host x.x.x.x port 22:
>>>>> Connection timed out". How can I specify at task level a custom ssh port
>>>>> for delegate_to?
>>>>>
>>>>> I already tried: "delegate_to: IP:PORT" and setting "ansible_port:
>>>>> PORT" at task level, but without success.
>>>>>
>>>>> May someone has an idea how to handle this problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Raphael
>>>>>
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