Ansible Bastion

A dockerized SSH and SOCKS5 bastion for Ansible.

Getting Started

These instructions will cover usage information and for the docker container

Prerequisities

In order to run this container you'll need docker installed.

• Windows
• OS X
• Linux

Usage

Examples

Import public keys from file.keys and use ports 22/2222.

docker run -d -p 22:22 -p 2222:2222 -e AUTHORIZED_KEYS_FILE=/file.keys -v /path/to/file.keys:/file.keys arcts/ansible-bastion

Import public keys from file.keys, use existing host keys, and random ports.

docker run -d -P -e AUTHORIZED_KEYS_FILE=/file.keys -v /path/to/file.keys:/file.keys -e HOST_KEYS_DIR=/host_keys -v /path/to/host_keys:/host_keys arcts/ansible-bastion

Environment Variables

• AUTHORIZED_KEYS - A string containing authorized keys
• AUTHORIZED_KEYS_FILE - Specifies a file containing authorized keys to import. You will also need to mount the file inside the container
• HOST_KEYS_DIR - Specifies a directory to import SSH host keys from. This will only import keys that start with ssh_host_