Ansible hangs when pulling from vsts git repo

Question

Hi I'm attmepting to clone from a vsts git repository (ssh://********/_git/ClouderaAutomation) but ansible seems to just hang when I try. Below is a snippet of the git module being used.

name: Clone git repo.
  git:
   repo: "{{ repoToClone }}"
   dest: "/home/vagrant/ClouderaAutomation"
   accept_hostkey: yes
   clone: yes
  become: yes

repoToClone is ssh://********/_git/ClouderaAutomation. When i execute 'git clone' cmd directly on the remote servers it clones the repository without issue. However when I attempt to clone via ansible it just hangs with no error, here is the last line of the -vvv logs:

<192.168.33.30> SSH: EXEC sshpass -d15 ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/home/vagrant/.ansible/cp/9a3517bddd -tt 192.168.33.30 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'sudo -H -S -n -u root /bin/sh -c '"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-lugffujkolhidvafudbyhootlistpyyf; /usr/bin/python /home/vagrant/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1494346256.28-165153189526831/git.py; rm -rf "/home/vagrant/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1494346256.28-165153189526831/" > /dev/null 2>&1'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"' && sleep 0'"'"''

is it the only issue with ansible ? and with which user are you able to clone manually on the remote machine ? — Berlin
yes its the only issue I'm currently facing with Ansible. For example if I attempt to clone 'github.com/Microsoft/PowerBI-JavaScript.git' with the same ansible module it completes successfully. I was using the vagrant user manually. — raah

raah raah · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-12T13:00:07

I managed to resolve my issue by including an additional parameter to my Ansible git module, -key_file.

Ansible Docs: Specify an optional private key file to use for the checkout.

Full module sample:

name: Clone git repo.
  git:
   repo: "{{ repoToClone }}"
   dest: "/home/vagrant/ClouderaAutomation"
   accept_hostkey: yes
   key_file: /home/vagrant/.ssh/id_rsa
  become: yes

Additional requirements:

Make sure you have generated an ssh keypair (ssh-keygen), I made one without a passphrase due to the answer given here by the OP.
Add the public key to the vsts server

Hopefully this helps anyone else who has the same issue.

Ansible hangs when pulling from vsts git repo

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