undercloud configured to use wrong ssh configuration

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman]

When deploying an environment using a pre-existing inventory, such as:

  myvirthost ansible_user=notstack

There is no ansible_private_key_file variable set (because the key may be provided by the local ssh agent, etc). Unfortunately, the presence or absence of this variable is used to determine whether or not to use ssh.config.ansible vs. ssh.config.local.ansible.

In the above situation, the playbooks will select the wrong configuration, and connects to the undercloud will fail.

[wes hayutin (weshayutin)]

an alternative could be to set a virthost variable in the quickstart.sh ansible invocation that is set to the shell variable VIRTHOST. We could then make decisions based on that -e virthost var.

[wes hayutin (weshayutin)]

The when statement in [1] could be replace w/ when: virthost == 'localhost'

[1] https://github.com/redhat-openstack/ansible-role-tripleo-inventory/blob/master/tasks/main.yml#L64

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/441562

[John Trowbridge (trown)]

moved to tripleo launchpad with quickstart tag

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Sagi Shnaidman (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/441562
Reason: According to TripleO policy of patch abandonment https://github.com/openstack/tripleo-specs/blob/master/specs/policy/patch-abandomment.rst, this patch is abandoned. If you would like to continue to work on it, please ask for restoration either on #tripleo in Freenode IRC, or openstack dev mailing list - <email address hidden> with [TripleO] in subject. Thanks.

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman (larsks)]

This is an old bug and who knows if it's still valid. I don't seem to be able to close it, but I am abandoning ownership of it.