Role Name

Spin servers with optimizations:

• SSH configured
• Swap added
• User created
• Network optimized - depending on RAM
• Limits are lift up - depending on CPU.
• Some basic packages required by every server - usually!

Requirements

Nothing really.

Role Variables

# New user to create
USERNAME: ""
# Password of the user
PASS: ""
# Port to use for SSH
SSH_PORT: 22
# Location of swapfile
swap_path: "/swapfile"
# Hosts with low RAM may need to use a small bs size
dd_bs_size_mb: 256
# Total size for swapfile
# Count of how many passes dd should make at bs size
swap_count: 16
# How often swap is utilized 0 to 100
swappiness: 10
# How often inode info is removed from cache
vfs_cache_pressure: 50

Dependencies

Nothing

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: spicegems.spicyserver-root }

License

MIT

Author Information

Varun Batra codevarun@gmail.com