Ansible Role: Baseline v1.0

An Ansible role that runs a few baseline tasks on a new server:

• Apt update
• Apt upgrade
• Install various default packages
• Install python passlib library
• Configure MOTD for ubuntu 14.04
• Sets default editor to vim
• Sets timezone
• Sets Hostname
• Sets 127.0.0.1 {{ server_hostname }} entry in /etc/hosts

Requirements

• Sudo access

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, there are no defaults:

  - server_hostname: localhost
  - timezone: America/Los_Angeles
  - extra_packages:
    - vim
    - lynx

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

- hosts: webservers
  vars:
  - server_hostname: localhost
  - timezone: America/Los_Angeles
  - extra_packages:
    - vim
    - lynx
  roles:
  - ansible-role-baseline

License

BSD-2

Author Information

Matt Margolin

mm0 on github