SSH Keys & Passwordless Login
Set up key-based auth so Ansible can connect.
Ansible Speaks SSH
Ansible connects to managed nodes over plain SSH. If you can SSH into a server, Ansible can almost certainly manage it.
Why Passwordless Matters
Typing a password for every host does not scale. SSH keys let Ansible log in to hundreds of servers with zero prompts.
All lessons in this course
- Installing the Ansible Control Node
- SSH Keys & Passwordless Login
- Your ansible.cfg: Sensible Defaults
- Ping a Host with the ping Module