rafael-c-alexandre.provision

An Ansible role to provision an automated user for executing Ansible playbooks on Debian servers. It creates a user and configures SSH access. Optionally, it can also create new users and user groups.

Requirements

• Ansible Version: Ensure you are running Ansible version 2.18 or higher.
• Supported Systems: This role is designed for Debian-based systems.

Role Variables

The following variables can be customized to tailor the role to your needs. Default values are defined in defaults/main.yml.

• automated_user: (Default: "ansible") The username of the automated user to be created.
• ssh_pub_key_location: (Default: "~/.ssh/ansible.pub") The path to the SSH public key that will be added to the user's authorized_keys.
• custom_new_groups: (Default: "[]") New user groups to be created in the target machine.
• custom_new_users: (Default: "[]") New users to be created in the target machine and optional groups to assign those users to.

Dependencies

This role has no external dependencies.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: rafael-c-alexandre-provision
      vars:
        automated_user: deploy
        ssh_pub_key_location: "/home/user/.ssh/deploy.pub"
        custom_new_groups:
          - provision-group
        custom_new_users:
          - user: provision-user
            groups: provision-group
            system: true
            shell: /usr/sbin/nologin

License

MIT