https://github.com/melihovv/initial-server-setup
Ansible playbook for initial ubuntu 16.04 server setup
https://github.com/melihovv/initial-server-setup
ansible ansible-playbook ansible-roles fail2ban iptables ntp-server sshd ubuntu-server ubuntu1604
Last synced: 8 months ago
JSON representation
Ansible playbook for initial ubuntu 16.04 server setup
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/melihovv/initial-server-setup
- Owner: melihovv
- Created: 2017-07-23T00:31:56.000Z (about 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-07-25T15:45:21.000Z (about 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-30T20:24:17.229Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: ansible, ansible-playbook, ansible-roles, fail2ban, iptables, ntp-server, sshd, ubuntu-server, ubuntu1604
- Size: 28.3 KB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
Awesome Lists containing this project
README
# Initial Ubuntu 16.04 Server Setup
## What this playbook does
- installs python2 and aptitude
- upgrades all software
- creates user with sudo rights
- configures sshd: disables root login and password authentication, also allows to login only user created on prev step
- installs
- git
- ntp
- vim
- tmux
- htop
- curl
- configures automatic security updates (do not reloads server, only installs updates)
- setups timezone
- configures iptables and fail2ban
- create swap file
## inventory file
Create `inventory` file. Its content is something like this
```
[web]
46.101.210.137
```
## Install deps
```bash
ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
```
## Initial setup
By default on ubuntu 16.04 there is no python 2 and aptitude.
To fix it run:
```bash
ansible-playbook initial-setup.yml
```
Beside it this playbook also creates user and configures ssh server.
## Environment variables
Copy `vars/main.yml.example` to `vars/main.yml` and change
variable values for your needs.
To generate password use
```bash
sudo apt-get install -y whois
mkpasswd --method=SHA-512
```
## Run
```bash
ansible-playbook main.yml
```
To run only specific roles
```bash
ansible-playbook main.yml --roles=user
```