While running Playbook Ansible is not using the Proxy

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I have setup Ansible in Win 11 via WSL.

  • I have configured the Proxy setting:
    ** Config of my host file:
    [remote_node]
    remote-node-1 ansible_host=10.10.10.1

    [remote_node:vars]
    ansible_ssh_common_args=‘-o ProxyJump=jump-server’
    ansible_connection=network_cli
    ansible_network_os=ios

** .ssh/config:
Host jump-server
HostName 172.25.25.25
User MYDOMAIN\user_jump

Host remote-node-1
HostName 10.10.10.10
User user_node
ProxyJump jump-server

Config of Playbook:

  • name: Manage node
    hosts: remote_node
    gather_facts: false
    tasks:
    • name: Testing to check the version
      ansible.netcommon.cli_command:
      command: show version

~/myansible$ ansible-playbook -i inventories/network/hosts playbooks/manage-node.yml -vvv

  • While debugging the connectivity in the network firewall log I have seen Ansible is directly trying to access the remote node.
  • To Access the remote node it has to use the proxy Jump server

Can you please help to fix this problem to use the proxy while running the playbook

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Assuming you are using ansible_ssh_type of libssh, the default is auto so you may need to inspect your logs to check for paramiko in your environment.

If it’s libssh you need to look at:

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Try using the variable ansible_paramiko_proxy_command instead of ansible_ssh_common_args. If you don’t have ansible-pylibssh installed, ansible.netcommon.network_cli will use ansible.builtin.paramiko by default, which doesn’t use the variable ansible_ssh_common_args in ansible-core >=2.18.

I noticed a bunch of outdated networking examples: Update networking jumphost examples by s-hertel · Pull Request #2586 · ansible/ansible-documentation · GitHub.

If that’s not the issue, sharing the output with -vvvv would be useful.

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