Automate-Deployments

1. Create the VPS Server

2. Set time zone and encodings

   • As root user run

     dpkg-reconfigure tzdata && \
     dpkg-reconfigure locales  && \
     apt-get update  && \
     apt-get upgrade -y && \
     apt-get install -y git vim wget curl
     

3. Install unattended upgrades

   apt-get install -y unattended-upgrades update-notifier-common && \
   dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low unattended-upgrades
   

4. Optional

   • Install Bashit to have a "sexy theme"

     git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it.git ~/.bash_it && ~/.bash_it/install.sh \
     && mkdir -p ~/.bash_it/plugins/enabled/ \
     && ln -s ~/.bash_it/plugins/available/history.plugin.bash ~/.bash_it/plugins/enabled/250---history.plugin.bash \
     && sed -i 's/bobby/sexy/' ~/.bashrc
     

5. Configure a user with sudo privileges

   • As root useradd -m -s /bin/bash -G sudo "user-name"

6. Set password to the user created

   • As root passwd "user-name"

7. Chage user, add ssh keys and set permissions

   mkdir ~/.ssh
   chmod 700 ~/.ssh
   vim ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
   chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
   

   ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "server"
   eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
   ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
   

   • Add the generated key to your repository and then test the conection

   ssh -T [email protected]
   

8. Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config PermitRootLogin no

9. Restart the sshd server sudo systemctl restart sshd

10. Optional

    • You can set a new hostname for your server sudo hostnamectl set-hostname "server-name"

11. In your terminal run

    ansible-playbook "deploy-file-name".yml -i hosts -K