bastion

Ansible uses ssh to configure its target host inventory, but for on-premise datacenters as well as hyperscalers like EC2/GCP/Azure, the target hosts are often purposely located in deeper private subnets that cannot be reached from the Ansible orchestrator host. One solution is to enable a bastion/jumpbox host that serves as the forwarding host.  It sits … Ansible: orchestrating ssh access through a bastion host