Ansible playbook access github

Question

I have an ansible playbook that autoamtes my git usage. I am able to clone and update my repos using it. I've also used ssh forwarding and it is working perfectly fine. 

My playbook:

- hosts: webservers
  sudo: yes
  remote_user: ubuntu

  tasks:

  - name: Test that git ssh connection is working.
    command: ssh -T git@github.com

My ssh forwarding is working fine as I'm able to ssh into my server but when I try doing the same thing by executing the playbook, it gives me the following error:

failed: [xxx.xxxxx.com] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["ssh", "-T", "git@github.com"], "delta": "0:00:00.585651", "end": "2014-06-09 14:11:37.410907", "rc": 255, "start": "2014-06-09 14:11:36.825426"}
stderr: Permission denied (publickey).

What's the issue?

Answer 1

Hey @Niha, Remove this line from your playbook

sudo: yes

When sudo runs on the remote host, the environment variables set by ssh during login are not available anymore and hence ssh forwarding fails.