I'm trying to setup a virtual machine with ansible. However, ansible keeps getting stuck on the Deploy guest from template task.
Using -vvv, I got the following logs.
When attempting to log in via ssh pubkey auth:
TASK [Deploy guest from template]
task path: /home/wilb/Development/vcenter_demo/vcenter_demo.yml:12
Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py
<vcenter.mycompany.com> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<vcenter.mycompany.com> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto
-o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no
-o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey
-o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=root -o ConnectTimeout=10
-o ControlPath=/home/wilb/.ansible/cp/982c3c15ab
vcenter.mycompany.com '/bin/sh -c '"'"'echo ~ && sleep 0'"'"''
When I try to use --ask-pass, it gets stuck here:
TASK [Deploy guest from template] *******************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/wilb/Development/vcenter_demo/vcenter_demo.yml:14
Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/cloud/vmware/vmware_guest.py
<vcenter.mycompany.com> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<vcenter.mycompany.com> SSH: EXEC sshpass -d12 ssh -C
-o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o User=root
-o ConnectTimeout=10
-o ControlPath=/home/wilb/.ansible/cp/982c3c15ab
vcenter.mycompany.com '/bin/sh -c '"'"'echo ~ && sleep 0'"'"''
I can login to the vCenter manually. However, to access the shell, I first have to type: "shell" in the vCenter; by default it's some weird customized prompt.
How can I get ansible to log into vcenter properly to automatically deploy a VM?
System
Ansible vmware_guest cannot ssh into vmware vSphere vCenter
It should not.
You should call most of "cloud" modules from local machine.
Take a look at examples of vmware_guest: there's delegate_to: localhost everywhere.