Baseline

Baseline playbook to update and install all the packages needed for a server

Requirements

• Ansible 2.18.0 or superior.
• This playbook now depends on the community.general collection. You can install it using:

  ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
  

  More information can be found here.

Install

Baseline is already in Ansible Galaxy, so the only thing you need is to install this script in your machine is just use ansible-galaxy command:

ansible-galaxy install lucascbeyeler.baseline

Update

When a new version of ansible-commons is released, you will need to run the install process again, but with the "-f" or "--force" parameter.

ansible-galaxy install -f lucascbeyeler.baseline

Features

• Update the system and install some basic packages (like vim, unzip, ntp, and ca-certificates);
• Configure a ntp client and change the timezone to what you want;
• Change the hostname and update the /etc/hosts to include 127.0.0.1 to answer when the hostname is resolved;
• Enable some services, like ntp, to start during the boot (Upstart and SystemD);
• Including hushlogin to hide the MOTD;
• Change the SSH default port;
• Disable Root login throught SSH.

Tested Platforms

This playbook has been tested against:

• CentOS 10
• Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish

Role Variables

• hostname: set the hostname of your server WITHOUT the domain;
• domain: set the domain for the server and the primary domain for your server;
• timezone: inform the timezone the playbook should set in your server;
• enable_hushlogin: enable hush login for all users inside your server;
• ssh_port: define the default port for OpenSSH Server;

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: all
  become: yes
  become_method: sudo
  roles:
     - role: lucascbeyeler.baseline
       hostname: pikachu
       domain: johto.com
       timezone: America/Sao_Paulo
       enable_hushlogin:
       ssh_port: 8080

License

View official GNU site http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.

Author Information

• Lucas Costa Beyeler - sysdevbey@gmail.com