Adding custom ssh key to vagrant

Question

I am testing provisioning with ansible locally and using vagrant I am simulate external machine. How to add my own key to vagrant and root user into vagrant box?

Do you want to get your keys into your box through ansible (like DomaNitro described below) or do you want to get those keys in there "manually" or by shell provisining so you are able to test your ansible setup? — Sgoettschkes

DomaNitro DomaNitro · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-31T11:42:21

In your vagrant file you can use something like

  ## Ansible Provisioning
  cfg.vm.provision :ansible do |ansible|
      ansible.playbook = "vagrant-provision.yml"
      ## Debugging
      ansible.verbose =  true
      ansible.verbose="vvvvv"
  end

Create file called vagrant-provision.yml in the same dir as your vagrant file. I am assuming your using ubuntu you might want to amend the groups for other systems

---
#
# This playbook deploys your keys to the vagrant
#

- name: Provision my keys
  hosts: all
  sudo: True
  vars:
    localuser: "{{ lookup('ENV','USER') }}"
  tasks:
    - name: Create your local user
      user: 
        name="{{localuser}}"
        home="/home/{{localuser}}"
        shell="/bin/bash"
        append="true"
        group="admin"
        comment="{{localuser}}"


    - name: Putting you authorized_key
      authorized_key: 
        key="{{lookup('file', '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub')}}"
        user="{{localuser}}"
        manage_dir=yes

So in that case when the vagrant comes up it will use the the above code to deploy your keys

Adding custom ssh key to vagrant

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