Ansible - establishing initial SSH connection

Question

I am trying to copy an SSH public key to a newly created VM:

- hosts: vm1
  remote_user: root
  tasks:
    - name: deploy ssh key to account
      authorized_key: user='root' key="{{lookup('file','/root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub')}}"

But getting error:

fatal: [jenkins]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password).\r\n", "unreachable": true}

So to establish SSH I need first to establish SSH?

How can I establish SSH for newly created KVM automatically, without manual key copy.

(host_key_checking = False in ancible.cfg)

techraf techraf · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-11T07:42:42

Assuming the target machine allows root-login with password (from the error message it seems it does), you must provide the credentials to your playbook:

ansible-playbook playbook.yml --extra-vars "ansible_ssh_user=root ansible_ssh_pass=password"

Ansible - establishing initial SSH connection

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