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I have a vagrantfile from a book about Ansible for Devops. The issue I have is that I can SSH into the servers but Ansible cannot. Here is my vagrantfile;

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
 # General Vagrant VM configuration
 config.vm.box = "geerlingguy/centos7"
 config.ssh.insert_key = false
 config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
 config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
 v.memory = 256
 v.linked_clone = true
 end

# Application server 1
 config.vm.define "app1" do |app|
 app.vm.hostname = "orc-app1.dev"
 app.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.60.4"
 end

# Application server 2
 config.vm.define "app2" do |app|
 app.vm.hostname = "orc-app2.dev"
 app.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.60.5"
 end

# Database server
 config.vm.define "db" do |db|
 db.vm.hostname = "orc-db.dev"
 db.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.60.6"
 end
end

And my Ansible hosts file;

# Application servers
[app]
192.168.60.4
192.168.60.5
# Database servers
[db]
192.168.60.6

# Group 'multi' with all servers
[multi:children]
app
db

# Variables that will be appliedto all servers
[multi:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=vagrant
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key

I know I can explicitly add ansible_ssh_port=2200 etc but I'd rather have it setup in the vagrantfile

You are using an ssh key to authenticate ansible, and as such you configure in vagrant a user with an ssh key, as in:

config.ssh.insert_key = true
config.ssh.username = "deploy-user"
config.ssh.private_key_path = "shared/deploy-user.pem"

I also advise the ssh user not to be root, but a user with sudo capabilities when in a production setting.

The other alternative is to put the ansible user rsa private/public key by hand in a newly provisioned system. The place is ~ansible_user/.ssh/authorized_keys