Ansible: "Permission denied (publickey)" when using git module

Question

I am trying to execute a git clone command in my Ansible playbook. It looks like this:

- name: a play that runs entirely on the ansible host
  hosts: 127.0.0.1
  connection: local
  tasks:
  - name: check out a git repository
    git: repo={{ repo_url }} dest=/Dest/For/Cloning/ accept_hostkey=yes
    vars:
      repo_url: git@github.com:lorin/mezzanine-example.git

And, my cfg file looks like this:

[defaults]
transport = ssh

[ssh_connection]
ssh_args= -A

However, when I'm running the command: ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local GitClone.yaml, I get the Permission denied (publickey) error.

I want to clone a gh repo to my local[specified file path].

What is the result of `ssh -T git@github.com`? Do you have GitHub account at all? — techraf, Jan 27 '17 at 07:42
I need to set it up, I guess: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2643502/git-permission-denied-publickey :) — Dawny33, Jan 27 '17 at 08:01

techraf · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-27T13:28:24.273

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This looks like you want to clone someone else's public repo and likely never to push back to GitHub.

You don't need to provide GitHub credentials for that, so just use the HTTPS transport:

repo_url: https://github.com/lorin/mezzanine-example.git

As a side note: when you use -c local in the ansible-playbook call you override transport settings from the ansible.cfg. Settings in your example file are ignored.

edited Jan 27 '17 at 13:28

answered Jan 27 '17 at 07:47

techraf

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Thanks. :) . It worked. How do I do it for my own repo? Which I'll keep pushing to. – Dawny33 Jan 27 '17 at 08:00

Ansible: "Permission denied (publickey)" when using git module

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