Ansible_Bootstrap

A simple role to help bootstrap a linux server for ansible management. It provisions a user, adds the user to the sudoers group, and configures password-less sudo for that user.

Requirements

This role only requires a working ansible installation. However, the workflow can benefit from having the SSH askpass installed. See the example playbook below for why.

Role Variables

Variable	Default	Description
bootstrap_user_name	ansible	The username for ansible to provision
bootstrap_user_shell	/bin/bash	The shell for the user
bootstrap_user_ssh_pubkey	""	The ssh public key string to assign to the user
bootstrap_user_sudo_group	sudo	The sudo group to add the user to

Dependencies

This role uses only builtin modules.

Example Playbook

Below is a simple playbook that can be called with any inventory to bootstrap a server with the public key of your current user. An example command would be ansible-playbook -i hosts.yaml --ask-pass bootstrap.yaml

---
- hosts: all
  vars:
    bootstrap_user_ssh_pubkey: "{{ lookup('file', '~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"
  roles:
    - ansible_bootstrap