Common

This role sets up common items on every server.

Completed Tasks:

• Users: Creates user accounts.
• Groups: Creates groups for users.
• Sudoers: Sets up sudoers files for specific users.
• MOTD: Creates the Message of the Day.
• Hostname: Sets the server's hostname.
• Extra Packages: Installs any additional packages needed.

Requirements

This role has been tested on Ubuntu 18.04 and Amazon Linux 2.

Role Variables

Variables for Playbook

In your playbook, you should define the following variables:

common_groups:
  - name:
    id:
    state:
common_users:
  - name:
    id:
    group:
    state:
    shell: 
    ssh_key:  
common_sudoers:
  - name: sysadmin
    state: present
    permission: "ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL"
common_hostname: 

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Set up the needed variables in your playbook:

- hosts: all
  vars:
    ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/bin/python3
    common_groups:
      - {name: sysadmin, id: 5000, state: present}
    common_users:
      - name: mark.honomichl
        id: 5000
        group: sysadmin
        state: present
        shell: /bin/zsh
        ssh_key: ssh-rsa $MYKEY
    common_sudoers:
      - {name: sysadmin, state: present, permission: "ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL"}
  roles:
    - austincloudguru.common

License

MIT

Author Information

Mark Honomichl, also known as AustinCloudGuru Created in 2020