ansible ssh key path in different location - Part 2

 Normally we will add the private key of the server in our .ssh/authorized keys, right?

But i want to keep the ssh key in a different location.

I created a folder called "centos" and i am planning to keep all the ansible files related to this project under this folder.

/Users/shivinvijai/Desktop/Learnings/Ansible/centos

In this folder, I fist created an inventory file.

shivinvijai@Shivins-MacBook-Pro centos % cat inventory 

[myservers]

150.61.189.96 ansible_user=opc ansible_ssh_private_key_file=/Users/shivinvijai/Desktop/Learnings/Ansilbe/ssh-key-2023-01-01.key

shivinvijai@Shivins-MacBook-Pro centos %

I specify my username and path to the ssh key file.

Now, I going to do a test, here i am using my own inventory file so the command will be this

shivinvijai@Shivins-MacBook-Pro centos % ansible -i inventory  -m ping myservers

150.61.189.96 | SUCCESS => {

    "ansible_facts": {

        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/libexec/platform-python"

    },

    "changed": false,

    "ping": "pong"

}