Ansible & Vagrant development environment - ssh

Question

I have just discovered Ansible and it is great! I have written some cool playbooks to manage 0downtime docker deployments on my servers, but I waste quite a bit of time waiting things to happen due to the fact that I sometimes have to work with poor internet connection. So i thought, I might be able to run Ansible against boot2docker, but got no success and after doing a lil bit of research I realized it would be too hacky and it would never behave like my actual Ubuntu server. So here I am trying to make it work with Vagrant.
I want to achive something like Laptop > Ansible > Vagrant Box; don`t want to run the playbooks from the Vagrant Box!
VagrantFile
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
config.ssh.forward_agent = true
end
vagrant ssh-config
Host default
HostName 127.0.0.1
User vagrant
Port 2222
UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null
StrictHostKeyChecking no
PasswordAuthentication no
IdentityFile "/Users/cesco/Code/vagrant/.vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/private_key"
IdentitiesOnly yes
LogLevel FATAL
ForwardAgent yes
Thanks to some SO question I was able to do this:
$ vagrant ssh-config > vagrant-ssh
$ ssh -F vagrant-ssh default
$ vagrant#vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$
But I keep getting localhost | FAILED => SSH Error: Permission denied (publickey,password).every time I try to run the Ansible ping ont the vagrant box.
Ansible inventory
[staging]
vagrant#localhost
Ansible config
[ssh_connection]
ssh_args = -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null \
-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no \
-o PasswordAuthentication=no \
-o IdentityFile=/Users/cesco/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key \
-o IdentitiesOnly=yes \
-o LogLevel=FATAL \
-p 2222
How do I translate the ssh file to ansible configurantion?
It does not work on the command line also!
ssh -vvv vagrant#localhost -p 2222 -i /Users/cesco/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o LogLevel=FATAL -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null

Answer 1

To use vagrant with and classic ssh connection, first add another private IP to your Vagrant file.
config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.1.2"
Reload your instance
vagrant reload
Then you can connect by ssh using the private key.
ssh -vvv vagrant#192.168.1.2 -p 2222 -i /Users/cesco/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key
That is the best way.

Answer 2

You misunderstand. The vagrant ansible plugin does not run ansible from the vagrant, but instead SSHs into the vagrant from your local box. That's the way to go since it means with a few small changes you can target a remote host instead.
To get it working you need to add something like this to your Vagrantfile:
config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
ansible.playbook = "ansible/vagrant.yml"
ansible.sudo = true
ansible.ask_vault_pass = true # comment out if you don't need
ansible.verbose = 'vv' # comment out if you don't want
ansible.groups = {
"tag_Role_myrole" => ["myrole"]
}
ansible.extra_vars = {
role: "myrole"
}
end
# Set the name of the VM.
config.vm.define "myrole" do |myrole|
luigi.vm.hostname = "myrole"
end
Create/update your ansible.cfg file with:
hostfile = ../.vagrant/provisioners/ansible/inventory/vagrant_ansible_inventory
Create a hosts inventory file containing:
localhost=127.0.0.1 ansible_connection=local
Now vagrant up will bring up and provision the instance, or run vagrant provision to (re)provision a running vagrant.
To run a playbook directly against your vagrant use:
ansible-playbook -u vagrant --private-key=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key yourplaybook.yml