ansible-ssh

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:~$