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

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:

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

sudo apt-get install -y whois
mkpasswd --method=SHA-512

Run

ansible-playbook main.yml

To run only specific roles

ansible-playbook main.yml --roles=user