Ansible Base role

This role ensure basic requirements are met:

• Install packages updates
• Install basic packages
  • aptitude
  • curl
  • debian-goodies
  • git
  • htop
  • locales
  • rsync
  • secure-delete
  • tree
  • vim
  • wget
• Enable/Disable IPV6
• Configure timezone and NTP
• Create and configure a Swapfile

Requirements

None

Supported distributions

• Debian 8
• Debian 9

Role Variables

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# Date & Time
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# Timezone
timezone: UTC

# NTP server
ntp_server: pool.ntp.org

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# Swap
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# Path to swapfile
swap_path: /var/swapfile

# Hosts with low RAM may need to use a small bs size
dd_bs_size_mb: 1

# Count of how many passes dd should make at bs size
swap_count: 1024

# how often swap is utilized, 60 is good for desktops, 10 is good for VPS
swappiness: 10

# How often inode info is removed from cache. Usually a frequent and costly lookup if not cached
vfs_cache_pressure: 50

##
# Base packages
##

# Packages to install by default on all servers
default_packages:
  - aptitude
  - curl
  - debian-goodies
  - git
  - htop
  - rsync
  - secure-delete
  - tree
  - vim
  - wget
  - locales

##
# Networking
##

# IPv6
# Should be set to false if fail2ban 0.10 (with IPv6 support) is not available on server
ipv6: true

Dependencies

None

Tests

$ cd tests
$ vagrant up --provision # or vagrant provision if the VM is already up