Ansible : SSH Error: ControlPath too long

Question

I run a computer with Ubuntu 15.10 and I try to run Vagrant with Ansible.

Before start, I like to say that I don\'t have any i

Answer 1

The very first sentence of the documentation for OpenSSH specific settings in Ansible says:

Under the [ssh_connection] header, the following settings are tunable for SSH connections.

So you need to place the ssh_args variable in [ssh_connection] section of the ansible.cfg, for example:

[defaults]
timeout = 600

[ssh_connection]
ssh_args = -o ControlMaster=off

In fact overriding the ssh_args with an empty value disables the defaults for ControlMaster/ControlPersistent/ControlPath in Ansible, so it should simply be:

[ssh_connection]
ssh_args =

Answer 2

I described the problem in similar question.

You need to change it to something shorter (if you have long hostname). For test case you can try just ./master, but for real use case, you should use at least ./s/%%h-%%r.