Unable to Ping Ansible Hosts in Inventory from Azure Cloudshell

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Hello Community,

I have created a Centos host in Azure and added the hosts to my Ansible inventory, however whenever I attempt to ping the host with ansible, from Azure Cloud Shell I get the error shown in image.

However, I can connect to the same host with ssh:

I have been trying to get this to work for two days now.

Im running Ansible version 2.4.3

Any guide (I mean any guide) will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Carlton

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HI Bro,

Let me know if this helps you, because the same was bugging me and i took backup of authorized_keys file and removed it.

After that, I have ssh-copy-id user@remote_host (copied the ssh keys), then tried to ping which worked for me.

Thanks,
rajesh.

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Hi Raj,

I’m new to this forum. I can’t actually see your answer?

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Bro,

I tried your suggestion, but I still can’t ping with ansible… Do you have any other suggestions?

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By default Azure VMs do not answer pings (Microsoft blocks that). So this is not ansible’s fault. Use something else to “ping” your VM instead.