Basic setup ansible role.

Functionality

Set system proxy

http_proxy: http://192.168.1.2:3128/
https_proxy: http://user:[email protected]:3128/
ftp_proxy: http://1.2.3.4/
no_proxy: 192.168.0.1
yum_proxy:  http://1.2.3.4/
yum_proxy_username: some
yum_proxy_password: password

Install EPEL on redhat

Hostname

if cfg_hostname is set, the hostname will be made to match.

Timezone

Set the timezone to host_timezone, or to 'UTC' as a default.

sysctl

Configure sysctl value.

sysctl_settings:
  - name: net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout
    value: 10

values will be read from: sysctl_settings, sysctl_group_settings, and sysctl_host_settings

Basic packages

The following packages get installed:

• vim
• tree
• htop
• rsync
• pip

Install and configure NTP

ntpd_service: "{{ __ntpd_service }}"
ntpd_conf: "{{ __ntpd_conf }}"
ntpd_db_dir: "{{ __ntpd_db_dir }}"
ntpd_script_dir: "{{ __ntpd_script_dir }}"
ntpd_package: "{{ __ntpd_package }}"
ntpd_leap_seconds_url: "https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list"

ntpd_upstreams: []
ntpd_pools: [ '0.pool.ntp.org', '1.pool.ntp.org', '2.pool.ntp.org', '3.pool.ntp.org' ]

VMWare tools

VMWare tools get installed if the target is a VMWare guest.

TODO: DNS, Users, ssh keys, groups