Why My Ansible Engine / Ansible Tower Job is Failing With 'Server not found in Kerberos database' Error ?
Issue
When running a playbook against Windows server with Kerberos authentication, playbook job is failing with Server not found in Kerberos database error.
TASK [Ping host] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [winhost01.ad.example.com]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "kerberos: authGSSClientStep() failed: (('Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information', 851968), ('Server not found in Kerberos database', -1765328377))", "unreachable": true}
Environment
- Ansible Engine
- Ansible Tower
- Ansible Automation Controller
- Windows Server
- Kerberos Authentication
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