Running playbook ios_command through bastion host

[Bharath Bharadwaj]

Hi All,

I have followed instructions on setting up bastion host from this article "https://gagor.pl/2016/04/use-bastion-host-with-ansible/" while I'm able to connect to my cisco switch through bastion host from a command line by executing "ssh -F ssh_config bastion" from the playbook I can't make it go through the bastion host, it still continues to connect directly to the switch, attached below is my playbook.

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 - hosts: gatewayed

   remote_user: root

   become: yes

   connection: local

   gather_facts: false

   tasks:

    - name: Get show version on ios device

      vars:

        cli:

          transport: cli

      ios_command:

        commands: show version

        host: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"

        provider: "{{ cli }}"

        username: test

        password: test@123

[Bharath Bharadwaj]

Hi, can anyone give a help on this?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 17. aug. 2016 12:21, Bharath Bharadwaj wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have followed instructions on setting up bastion host from this article
> "https://gagor.pl/2016/04/use-bastion-host-with-ansible/" while I'm able to
> connect to my cisco switch through bastion host from a command line by
> executing "ssh -F ssh_config bastion" from the playbook I can't make it go
> through the bastion host, it still continues to connect directly to the
> switch, attached below is my playbook.
>
> ---
>
> - hosts: gatewayed
> remote_user: root
> become: yes
> connection: local

connection: local means, run everything on local machine, I guess that's
not what you want.

I dont't think IOS has sudo/su, so become: yes might not work either.


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Kai Stian Olstad

[Bharath Bharadwaj]

Thanks,

what should i set the connection as to make sure it goes through the bastion host? I have already setup the ssh config and ansible.cfg with the ssh args, since you mentioned connection= local it won't go from bastion, i want to change this to go through bastion host.

Thank you.

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 23. aug. 2016 14:15, Bharath Bharadwaj wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> what should i set the connection as to make sure it goes through the
> bastion host? I have already setup the ssh config and ansible.cfg with the
> ssh args, since you mentioned connection= local it won't go from bastion, i
> want to change this to go through bastion host.

ssh which is the default so just remove or comment out the line.

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Bharath Bharadwaj]

Thank you!

It was ssh by default, it is just I did not have paramiko installed on my jump host, once that was done the connectivity was successful.

Regards,