Unable to SSH from Ansible AWX to GCP VM Instance

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Unable to SSH from Ansible AWX to GCP VM Instance.

Dear community,

I am attempting to SSH from my Ansible AWX instance to a VM running on GCP. I have a Service Account created for connecting to the GCP project, but I am encountering the following error:

Apr 17 13:27:37 XXXX  sshd[111041]: Connection closed by invalid user XXXX_root 10.XXX.XX.X port 34462 [preauth]

After researching the Google forums, I learned that a Service Account should be used to connect AWX to GCP, and I have followed this approach. However, I also created a regular user account, but I am still unable to connect using it. What could I be missing? Should I be using the Service Account credentials or the Regular User credentials?

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Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

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@kurokobo , Please help if you can here !

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I haven’t had a chance to connect AWX to a VM on GCP, so I can’t really share anything until I give it a try myself one day :frowning:

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Sure @kurokobo Thanks a lot for your response and I want to share some updates on this.

I have two GCP users :

  1. With Regular type (User ID and password) for SSH
  2. With Private Key (JSON file) which I have used for Dynamic Inventory sync (And Sync works)

So I can get the hosts from a project and sync them in my inventory but I cannot SSH to the VMs in GCP.

Already made the below changes in my Ubuntu VM for /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

PasswordAuthentication yes
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
UseDNS no
PermitRootLogin yes

But still it gives me this error.

Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Warning: Permanently added 'XX.XXX.XX.XX' (ED25519) to the list of known hosts.\r\awx_root@gcp.XXX.com@ 'XX.XXX.XX.XX' : Permission denied (publickey).

And Thanks for checking this in advance.