Seamless provisioning, install and configuration automation in Ansible

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Hi,

I’m automating a QA environment which involves provisioning VM’s on the cloud and installation of Kubernetes cluster. I’m able to install and configure Kubernetes on the VM’s after provisioning thanks to the Kubernetes Contrib.

I would like to know how I can provision a VM, copy the public keys to the VM created, and proceed with the installation of Kubernetes without manual intervention. Currently I can’t figure out a way in which I can copy the ssh keys to the provisioned VM without the password prompt. Any directions on how to achieve this would be very helpful.

Thanks,

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Are you able to modify the VM templates? That would be simplest.
Depending on your virtualiser there is usually a way to run a 'first boot' step
on newly created VMs; that might be another way to get the initial pubkey
(that Ansible will use) installed.

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Could you please point to some links on how it can done through Azure?

Thanks,

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I've never used Azure but this looks like what you want:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/custom-data-and-cloud-init-on-windows-azure/