Ansible

Configuration management

Links

• Homepage
• Adding iptables Rules With Ansible
• Going Deeper into Ansible Playbooks

Quickstart

On server as root create key:

ssh-keygen

(go for defaults) and then get content of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub in your copypastebuffer

On 'clients' edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to

PermitRootLogin without-password

and restart sshd

Edit/create ~root/.ssh/authorized_keys and add:

from="ip.of.ansible.server" <paste public key here>

=Show all host variables

ansible -m setup <hostname>