Ping & playbook runs failing for some boxes

[Sivabalan N]

Team,

I'm using ansible to deploy in my AWS production environment. I'm using dynamic inventory and ping & running playbook based on the host tag name. If I run ping for specific tag, 2 out of 5 servers are failing to ping. Similarly I've same issues for multiple AWS tags.

root@ip-172-16-0-93:~# ansible --version

ansible 2.1.0.0

  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

Config File:

[defaults]

inventory      = /etc/ansible/hosts

remote_tmp     = $HOME/.ansible/tmp

local_tmp      = $HOME/.ansible/tmp

forks          = 5

poll_interval  = 15

sudo_user      = ubuntu

transport      = smart

remote_port    = 22

module_lang    = C

gathering = implicit

# change this for alternative sudo implementations

sudo_exe = sudo

# SSH timeout

timeout = 60

remote_user = ubuntu

log_path = /var/log/ansible.log

private_key_file = /var/lib/rundeck/.ssh/id_rsa

ansible_managed = Ansible managed: {file} modified on %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S by {uid} on {host}

# set plugin path directories here, separate with colons

action_plugins     = /usr/share/ansible/plugins/action

callback_plugins   = /usr/share/ansible/plugins/callback

connection_plugins = /usr/share/ansible/plugins/connection

lookup_plugins     = /usr/share/ansible/plugins/lookup

vars_plugins       = /usr/share/ansible/plugins/vars

filter_plugins     = /usr/share/ansible/plugins/filter

test_plugins       = /usr/share/ansible/plugins/test

strategy_plugins   = /usr/share/ansible/plugins/strategy

fact_caching = memory

[ssh_connection]

ssh_args = -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s

control_path = /var/lib/rundeck/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%%h-%%p-%%r

pipelining = True

Error:

root@ip-172-16-0-93:~# ansible tag_Ansible_Worker -m ping

ec2-*-*-*-*.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com | UNREACHABLE! => {

    "changed": false,

    "msg": "SSH Error: data could not be sent to the remote host. Make sure this host can be reached over ssh",

    "unreachable": true

}

ec2-*-*-*-*.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com | UNREACHABLE! => {

    "changed": false,

    "msg": "SSH Error: data could not be sent to the remote host. Make sure this host can be reached over ssh",

    "unreachable": true

}

ec2-*-*-*-*.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com | SUCCESS => {

    "changed": false,

    "ping": "pong"

}

ec2-*-*-*-*.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com | SUCCESS => {

    "changed": false,

    "ping": "pong"

}

ec2-*-*-*-*.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com | SUCCESS => {

    "changed": false,

    "ping": "pong"

}

ec2-*-*-*-*.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com | SUCCESS => {

    "changed": false,

    "ping": "pong"

}

Thanks in Advance,

Siva.

[jta...@ansible.com]

Add -vvvv to the ansible command so that you can see the ssh arguments in use.