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Question

Hi Guys,

I m trying to connect to the EC2 instance using Ansible Playbook. But it is showing me the below error.

fatal: [3.7.248.36]: FAILED! => {"ansible_facts": {}, "changed": false, "failed_modules": {"setup": {"ansible_facts": {"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python"}, "failed": true, "module_stderr": "Shared connection to 3.7.248.36 closed.\r\n", "module_stdout": "Please login as the user \"ec2-user\" rather than the user \"root\".\r\n\r\n", "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error", "rc": 0, "warnings": ["Platform unknown on host 3.7.248.36 is using the discovered Python interpreter at /usr/bin/python, but future installation of another Python interpreter could change this. See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/reference_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html for more information."]}}, "msg": "The following modules failed to execute: setup\n"}

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You are trying to connect to your EC2 instance. But your playbook is trying to do SSH with root user. But your instance is expecting ec2-user as a username. So you need to set your remote_user=ec2-user in your playbook as shown below.

- hosts: all
  remote_user: ec2-user
  become: yes
  tasks:
  - name: Install httpd
    package:
      name: httpd
      state: present