UNREACHABLE: Permission denied (publickey).

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Does anyone have some pointers as to why the playbook cannot connect to the other nodes? I have set-up a public ssh key in cloud-init and verified it has distributed to all the other nodes properly.

I am a newbie with k3s and ansible but I though I followed the tutorials pretty well and I haven't had luck trying to find documentation on the public key authentication and implementation at this scale. I've been messing with it for a while now and I cant seem to figure out what my issue is.

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After playing around with it some more I was able to get it working by:

• Taking my previously created keypair from PuttyGEN and converting the private key to OpenSSH (Linux only seems to like OpenSSH)
• Creating a new file in ~/.ssh directory that contains the private key naming it whatever you want nano PRIVATEKEYNAME
• Creating a config file (nano config) with the args IdentityFile ~/.ssh/PRIVATEKEYNAME so it knows to use that file (Make sure you use Identity and not Identify).
• Also make sure you set your permissions for the PRIVATEKEYNAME file to read/write access only using chmod 600 ~/.ssh/PRIVATEKEYFILE, or it will give you an error of "unprotected private key file".
   
  Hopefully this helps anyone that happens to have an issue with this in the future.