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tillda
tillda

Reputation: 18680

GIT over SSH in Ansible hangs, eventhough ssh-agent forwarding is set up

I have set up everyhing I could find, but still cloning a repo from GitHub hangs the provisioning process.

I have:

Upvotes: 31

Views: 19500

Answers (6)

Vini.g.fer
Vini.g.fer

Reputation: 11919

In my case the issue was the repository string. I had a bitbucket private repository set as:

git@tsrs...

but it should be:

ssh://git@tsrs...

Notice the subtle absence of the prefix "ssh". The weird part is that if I clone a github repository without the "ssh", it works fine!

Upvotes: 1

Lebnik
Lebnik

Reputation: 636

Add to ansible.cfg the following parameter:

[defaults]
sudo_flags=-HE

Upvotes: 1

Nicolas Zozol
Nicolas Zozol

Reputation: 7038

I had an error :

bitbucket.org has an unknown hostkey. Set accept_hostkey to True or manually add the hostkey prior to running the git module

I had to add a accept_hostkey parameter to my git module command :

playbook :

tasks:
    - name: clone
      git: [email protected]:robusta-code/xyz.git
           dest=/app
           accept_hostkey=yes

ansible.cfg

[ssh_connection]
ssh_args = -o ForwardAgent=yes

Upvotes: 0

jassinm
jassinm

Reputation: 7491

this works for me 

- name: ensure known hosts
  shell: touch ~/.ssh/known_hosts
- name: remove github.com from known host
  shell: ssh-keygen -R github.com
  # >> instead of > to keep existing known_hosts file
- name: ensure github.com in known host
  shell: ssh-keyscan -H github.com >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts

Upvotes: 7

Tom Seldon
Tom Seldon

Reputation: 1023

Just to expand on tillda's answer, that config can be placed in an ansible.cfg file alongside your playbook. e.g.:

ansible.cfg

[defaults]
transport = ssh

[ssh_connection]
ssh_args = -o ForwardAgent=yes

I'd say it's better to do that than setting as an env variable, as placing it in a conf file is both more declarative and also will minimise the steps needed for other people you may be working with to going with a project.

Conf docs: http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#the-ansible-configuration-file

Example config file: https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/ansible.cfg

Upvotes: 61

tillda
tillda

Reputation: 18680

I want to share the answer that worked for me:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/ansible-project/u6o-sWynMjo/69UwJfJPq7cJ - From Ansible Google Group

For ansible, ssh-add to load ssh keys in your host machine first. Then use "ssh" as connection type with forwarding enabled.

Such as:

$ ssh-add  
$ export ANSIBLE_TRANSPORT="ssh"  
$ export  ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS="-o ForwardAgent=yes"

See manual for ssh-add for running the agent.

The Ansible docs for ssh-args are http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#ssh-args

Upvotes: 14

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