GIT over SSH in Ansible hangs, eventhough ssh-agent forwarding is set up

Question

I have set up everyhing I could find, but still cloning a repo from GitHub hangs the provisioning process.

I have:

• server in known_hosts

• .ssh/config

  Host github.com
    ForwardAgent yes
    StrictHostKeyChecking no
  

• copied private key

• public key is in authorized_keys
• the command runs as vagrant user

• the play is:

  - name: Checkout from git
    git: [email protected]:username/repositoryname.git dest=/srv/website
  

Answer 1

Just to expand on tillda's answer, that config can be placed in an ansible.cfg file alongside your playbook. e.g.:

ansible.cfg

[defaults]
transport = ssh

[ssh_connection]
ssh_args = -o ForwardAgent=yes

I'd say it's better to do that than setting as an env variable, as placing it in a conf file is both more declarative and also will minimise the steps needed for other people you may be working with to going with a project.

Conf docs: http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#the-ansible-configuration-file

Example config file: https://raw.github.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/ansible.cfg