Multiple values for ansible connection properties

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Has anyone heard of providing a second --user/–privatekey to ansible-playbook command, just in case the first user/privkey authentication fails?

Seem to remember something about this in an Ansible session on the RHEl summit last year.

regards,
Ivan.

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some background on why I could use this is: configuring systems pre-deployed on different cloud providers, on one if need to start with ‘root’ to create the ansible user, on the other i dont have root, but it’s ‘localadmin’)

Now i have build a script around ansible-playbook, to determine on which provides i will be deploying.
If i could pass both, i would not need this script construction. From ansible perspecitiv, i should not need to care, where my vm is residing…

ivan.

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some background on why I could use this is: configuring systems pre-deployed on different cloud providers, on one if
need to start with 'root' to create the ansible user, on the other i dont have root, but it's 'localadmin')
Now i have build a script around ansible-playbook, to determine on which provides i will be deploying.
If i could pass both, i would not need this script construction. From ansible perspecitiv, i should not need to care,
where my vm is residing...

Why don't you put this information into group_vars/host_vars in your inventory?

Regards
         Racke

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Thanks Racke,

yes i thought about this. This would require me to split the hosts in multiple groups (lets say: grp_VMWare, grp_MSAzure, grp_OracleCloud etc)
And that would require some more administration,

Thanks for the tip, this will keep me thinking some more about this suggestion, while waiting for other solutions.

Thanks!
Ivan.

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Thank you for the response. However, I have tried with quotes, without quotes, encrypted, decrypted, hashed, unhashed, it just does not seem to work.

Rene