Ansible Can't SSH When SSH Communicator Uses Password about packer-plugin-ansible HOT 6 OPEN

I used this "very dirty" but effective workaround ...

provisioner "ansible" {
    playbook_file = "${path.cwd}/provisionning/${var.name}/playbooks/${var.name}.yaml"
    ansible_env_vars = [
      "ANSIBLE_SSH_ARGS='-oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -oPubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=ssh-rsa'",
      "ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False"
    ]
    user="${local.ssh_user}"
}

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@puppetmaster Yes, I used a similar approach. Best solution I found, that pleases business environments, is to build an image with packer first because packer has the ansible provisioner built it, then call that image in my terraform build whether it is AWS, proxmox, vmware etc. Then have ansible scripts set up for any extra needed configuration management. I know this requires more code, but the process is a little smoother.

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Same experience here.

Packer version: 1.7.3
Ansible version: 2.10.5
Python version: 3.6.9

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Same problem here.

Packer 1.7.5
Ansible Core 2.11.5
Python 3.9.7
Fedora 34

That workaround works though.

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Same issue here. The workaround is not business friendly.

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I had the same problem recently and I found aws ec2 inventory plugin for ansible could be a solution.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/aws/aws_ec2_inventory.html

I found this from my private repo created 3 years ago, so not sure this is relevant today.

working example.
https://github.com/Y4suyuki/whisper-server/blob/main/aws_ec2.yml

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