Root SSH keys configuration

Ansible is designed to help system administrators drive greater efficiency in the datacenter by being able to configure and operate many servers using orchestration playbooks. In order for Ansible to be able to fulfill its duties, it needs an SSH connection on the Linux systems it is managing. Furthermore, in order to have a greater degree of freedom and flexibility, a hands-off approach using SSH public private key pairs is required.

As the installation of OpenStack is expected to run as root, this stage expects the deployment host's root public key to be propagated across all servers.

Getting ready

Ensure that you are root on the deployment host. In most cases, this is the first infrastructure controller node that we ...

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