Ansible not picking up proxy settings - ansible

Question

I am trying to run an Ansible job on a remote host. But for that to happen, I need to go through a proxy.
Proxy server is: 142.133.134.161
Proxy port is: 1088
My playbook is simple for now:
---
- hosts: LAB1
tasks:
- name: Copy file
template: src=/tmp/file1 dest=/tmp/file1
My environment file is:
[LAB1]
10.169.99.189
10.169.99.190
My ansible.cfg file is:
Host 10.169.99.*
ProxyCommand nc -x 142.133.134.161:1088 %h %p
But when I run a job, it says "Connection timed out":
[root#vm1 ANSIBLE]# ansible -i /root/ANSIBLE/env/target LAB1 -m ping
10.169.99.190 | FAILED => SSH Error: ssh: connect to host 10.169.99.190 port 22: Connection timed out
while connecting to 10.169.99.190:22
It is sometimes useful to re-run the command using -vvvv, which prints SSH debug output to help diagnose the issue.
10.169.99.189 | FAILED => SSH Error: ssh: connect to host 10.169.99.189 port 22: Connection timed out
while connecting to 10.169.99.189:22
It is sometimes useful to re-run the command using -vvvv, which prints SSH debug output to help diagnose the issue.
When I run this in debug mode:
[root#vm1 ANSIBLE]# ansible -i /root/ANSIBLE/env/target LAB1 -m ping -vvvvv
<10.169.99.190> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: msdp
<10.169.99.190> REMOTE_MODULE ping
<10.169.99.189> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: msdp
<10.169.99.189> REMOTE_MODULE ping
<10.169.99.190> EXEC sshpass -d8 ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/root/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -o User=msdp -o ConnectTimeout=10 10.169.99.190 /bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1473612082.62-116308097993503 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1473612082.62-116308097993503'
<10.169.99.189> EXEC sshpass -d9 ssh -C -tt -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ControlPath="/root/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r" -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no -o PubkeyAuthentication=no -o User=msdp -o ConnectTimeout=10 10.169.99.189 /bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1473612082.63-269107268980760 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1473612082.63-269107268980760'
10.169.99.189 | FAILED => SSH Error: ssh: connect to host 10.169.99.189 port 22: Connection timed out
while connecting to 10.169.99.189:22
It is sometimes useful to re-run the command using -vvvv, which prints SSH debug output to help diagnose the issue.
10.169.99.190 | FAILED => SSH Error: ssh: connect to host 10.169.99.190 port 22: Connection timed out
while connecting to 10.169.99.190:22
It is sometimes useful to re-run the command using -vvvv, which prints SSH debug output to help diagnose the issue.
This does not indicate that it is using the Proxy. Is that the issue here?

Answer 1

Given your ProxyCommand syntax is correct and you want to include it in the ansible.cfg, the correct syntax would be to add an argument to the ssh_args in the [ssh_connection] section of the file:
[ssh_connection]
ssh_args = -o ForwardAgent=yes -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o ProxyCommand="nc -x 142.133.134.161:1088 %h %p"