UNREACHABLE error while running an Ansible playbook

Question

I do have access to ssh into the destination machine, and it works, but whenever I run this playbook, I get this error output:

sudo ansible-playbook ansible-playbook-test.yml

PLAY [openstack] *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [amachine]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password,keyboard-interactive).\r\n", "unreachable": true}
        to retry, use: --limit @/blah/ansible-play/ansible-playbook-test.retry

PLAY RECAP ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
amachine       : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=1    failed=0

My playbook is as simple as this:

---
# hosts could have been "remote" or "all" as well

- hosts: openstack
  tasks:
    - name: test connection
      ping:
      remote_user: djuarezg
      vars:
        ansible_ssh_extra_args: '-K -o ControlPath=none'



- hosts: openstack
  tasks:
    - name: Create Swarm cluster
      command: mkdir djg
      vars:
        ansible_ssh_extra_args: '-K -o ControlPath=none'

I was trying to use ansible_ssh_extra_args: '-K -o ControlPath=none' to see if it was able to forward the Kerberos ticket, but any kind of connection is enough.

Answer 1

Try this:

$ ansible-playbook --user=djuarezg -vvv ansible-playbook-test.yml

Check SSH args in the output