Rundeck on docker SSH issue

[Raghu Manne]

Hello,

I have Rundeck set up on an EC2 instance using Docker Compose (rundeck:5.13.0) and I’m trying to run Ansible jobs through it.

From the EC2 host itself, I’m able to SSH into host.com without any issues. However, when I try the same from inside the Rundeck container, the connection hangs and eventually times out.

Error:

fatal: [host.com]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: ssh: connect to host host.com port 22: Connection timed out", "unreachable": true}

It looks like SSH is working at the EC2 host level but not from inside the container.
Do I need to configure additional networking settings, volumes (e.g. SSH keys), or environment variables for the container to allow outbound SSH connections?

Any guidance or suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks!