ansible-ssh 0.9.1

Interactive SSH for Ansible

Adds interactive SSH capabilities to Ansible, especially useful in setups with VMs in private subnets accessible only via jumphosts.

It uses Ansible’s inventory file so any ansible_ssh_common_args or ansible_ssh_extra_args apply to ansible-ssh as well.

Requirements

• ansible

• pip

Usage

Run with -h for command-line help:

usage: ansible-ssh [-h] [--inventory INVENTORY] [--key-file KEYFILE]
                   [--user USER] [--verbose] [--become]
                   host

positional arguments:
  host                  the host to ssh into, if not provided a list of hosts
                        in current inventory file is printed

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --inventory INVENTORY, -i INVENTORY
                        ansible inventory file to use instead of the one
                        defined in ansible.cfg
  --key-file KEYFILE, -k KEYFILE
                        ssh private key file to use instead of the default for
                        the user
  --user USER, -u USER, -l USER
                        override the user defined in ansible inventory file
  --verbose, -v         pass verbose flag to ssh command
  --become, -b          ssh as root instead of the inventory-supplied account

Example

$ ansible-ssh lb-0
executing ssh -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ProxyCommand="ssh -W %h:%p -q ubuntu@10.200.100.60" -l ubuntu 192.168.1.30
Last login: Sat May 25 15:40:13 2019 from 192.168.1.100
ubuntu@lb-0:~$