Vagrantfile setup to allow Ansible to SSH in

Question

I have a vagrantfile from a book about Ansible for Devops. The issue I have is that I can SSH into the servers but Ansible cannot. Here is my vagrantfile ;

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  # General Vagrant VM configuration
  config.vm.box = "geerlingguy/centos7"
  config.ssh.insert_key = false
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
    v.memory = 256
    v.linked_clone = true
 end

# Application server 1
  config.vm.define "app1" do |app|
    app.vm.hostname = "orc-app1.dev"
    app.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.60.4"
 end

# Application server 2
  config.vm.define "app2" do |app|
    app.vm.hostname = "orc-app2.dev"
    app.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.60.5"
 end

# Database server
  config.vm.define "db" do |db|
    db.vm.hostname = "orc-db.dev"
    db.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.60.6"
 end
end

And my Ansible hosts file;

# Application servers
[app]
192.168.60.4
192.168.60.5
# Database servers
[db]
192.168.60.6

# Group 'multi' with all servers
[multi:children]
app
db

# Variables that will be appliedto all servers
[multi:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=vagrant
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key

I know I can explicitly add ansible_ssh_port=2200 etc but I'd rather have it setup in the vagrantfile

Answer 1

You could try several things

1. Set the full ssh key path, in ansible config.
2. Try connect by your self, using ssh.
3. Check that 22th port opened, using telnet. If it's closed you can try to disable firewall in VM. CentOS has it enabled by default.