Ansible connect to jump machine through VPN?

Question

I was wondering if it were possible to tell Ansible to set up a VPN connection before executing the rest of the playbook. I've googled around, but haven't seen much on this.

Answer 1

You could combine a local playbook to setup a VPN and a playbook to run your tasks against a server.

Depending on whats the job you can use ansible or a shell script to connect the VPN. Maybe there should be another playbook to disconnect afterwards.

As result you will have three playbooks and one to combine them via include:

- include: connect_vpn.yml
- include: do_stuff.yml
- include: disconnect_vpn.yml