Ansible-directadmin

Deploy DirectAdmin with Ansible

Requirements

• A DirectAdmin license is required.
• A clean machine is required. DirectAdmin will actively overwrite existing packages.
• A publicly reachable IP is required.
• Root access to the target machine is required. For details, read: Step 3

Ansible 2.1 is highly recommended.

Role Variables

Its recommended that you use either the group_vars / host_vars to set the required variables per server:

directadmin_client_id:
directadmin_license_id:
directadmin_hostname: # Optional, will be obtained from server
directadmin_ip_address: # Optional, will be obtained from server

If you wish to use a custom custombuild configuration, please configure:

directadmin_custombuild_options_conf: http://yourdomain.com/options.conf

Dependencies

As of present there are no dependent roles. (They may be added later)

Recommended to have installed on your server are:

- Firewall
- SSH protection (Fail2Ban)
- Kernel hardening

FreeBSD support may be added later.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  become: yes
  roles:
     - { role: hyperized.directadmin }

License

MIT

Author Information

Gerben Geijteman gerben@hyperized.net