Running playbook ios_command through bastion host

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Hi All,

I have followed instructions on setting up bastion host from this article “https://gagor.pl/2016/04/use-bastion-host-with-ansible/” while I’m able to connect to my cisco switch through bastion host from a command line by executing “ssh -F ssh_config bastion” from the playbook I can’t make it go through the bastion host, it still continues to connect directly to the switch, attached below is my playbook.

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Hi, can anyone give a help on this?

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connection: local means, run everything on local machine, I guess that's not what you want.

I dont't think IOS has sudo/su, so become: yes might not work either.

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Thanks,

what should i set the connection as to make sure it goes through the bastion host? I have already setup the ssh config and ansible.cfg with the ssh args, since you mentioned connection= local it won’t go from bastion, i want to change this to go through bastion host.

Thank you.

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ssh which is the default so just remove or comment out the line.

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Thank you!

It was ssh by default, it is just I did not have paramiko installed on my jump host, once that was done the connectivity was successful.

Regards,