CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ansibleansible-inventory
MJG
MJG

Reputation: 69

How to connect with ansible to an EC2 instance?

Friends,

I am trying to run some ansible tasks against an EC2 instance and getting the following error:

fatal: [ubuntu]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to 
the host via ssh: ssh: connect to host 34.218.130.84 port 22:connection timed out",
"unreachable": true}

I think, the problem is related to Ansible configuration because I tryed connecting with the instance via Putty using the same IP, username and pem-file and it worked just fine.

This is how my inventory file looks like:

[brt]

ubuntu ansible_ssh_host=34.218.130.84
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/home/mjgoncalves/ansible/chave/aws-ansible.pem

[brt:vars]
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/home/mjgoncalves/ansible/chave/aws-ansible.pem
ansible_ssh_host=34.218.130.84
ansible_ssh_user=username
ansible_ssh_pass=passowrd
ansible_become=yes
ansible_become_method=sudo
ansible_become_pass=password
ansible_connection=ssh
...

Any idea what I may be missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 891

Answers (1)

toydarian
toydarian

Reputation: 4554

The "ssh" in the variable names has been deprecated. You should use ansible_host instead of ansible_ssh_host (same for username, password etc., but not for the ansible_ssh_private_key_file).

The IP in the message (connect to host 34.228.140.94) is not the same as in your inventory, so it seems that it does not take the IP from the variable, or you are overwriting it somewhere else.

Upvotes: 1

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