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Learning Ansible 2

You're reading from   Learning Ansible 2 Learn everything you need to manage and handle your systems with ease with Ansible 2 using this comprehensive guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786464231
Length 266 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 2. Automating Simple Tasks 3. Scaling to Multiple Hosts 4. Handling Complex Deployment 5. Going Cloud 6. Getting Notifications from Ansible 7. Creating a Custom Module 8. Debugging and Error Handling 9. Complex Environments 10. Introducing Ansible for Enterprises

Creating the Ansible user


When you create a machine (or rent one from any hosting company) it arrives only with the root user. Let's start creating a playbook that ensures that an Ansible user is created, it's accessible with an SSH key, and is able to perform actions on behalf of other users (sudo) with no password asked. I often call this playbook, firstrun.yaml since I execute it as soon as a new machine is created, but after that, I don't use it since it uses the root user that I disable for security reasons. Our script will look something like the following:

--- 
- hosts: all 
  user: root 
  tasks: 
  - name: Ensure ansible user exists 
    user: 
      name: ansible 
      state: present 
      comment: Ansible 
  - name: Ensure ansible user accepts the SSH key 
    authorized_key: 
      user: ansible 
      key: https://github.com/fale.keys 
   state: present 
  - name: Ensure the ansible user is sudoer with no...
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