How do you run unattended ansible?

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for certain tasks i have a ‘maint’ user that has a sshkey w/o passphrase, run ansible from the cron with the config options using that key for that user (he also has sudo NOPASSWORD to a restricted set of commands).

I haven’t used it, but there is also fireball mode.

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for certain tasks i have a 'maint' user that has a sshkey w/o passphrase,
run ansible from the cron with the config options using that key for that
user (he also has sudo NOPASSWORD to a restricted set of commands).

I haven't used it, but there is also fireball mode.

Fireball mode doesn't help you with the intended case at all because
it distributes secrets over SSH.

Dylan's previous 2 answers are what is there now. I'd like to see
more done in the docs explaining how to do the ssh-agent /
SSH-AUTH-SOCK thing if someone wants to write a paragraph or two, I'll
figure out where to insert it.

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Okay, here’s a stab at it: