Ansible-Playbooks

Configures a Debian and two CentOS servers using Ansible. Created for a class project for CS 254 - Software Development with Open Source Systems. You can find the documentation for Ansible playbooks here.

Project Requirements

Given

A VirtualBox appliance files. Contains

• tiny-debian8-32 (IP 10.0.5.101)
• tiny-centos7-32 (IP 10.0.5.102)
• tiny-centos7-32-b (IP 10.0.5.103)
• fed-lxde-32 (IP 10.0.5.100)

Requirements

• Create an inventory file for the three managed machines.
• Create a playbook with roles to manage the basic setup of all three machines:
  • Create a new user named “manager”.
    • Make manager an admin with all sudo rights (add to wheel group or change the sudoers file).
    • Create and transfer ssh keys for manager to the server’s authorized keys.
  • Install the packages for mtr, tcpdump, nano.
  • Set the primary DNS server for the machines to 10.0.5.1, and the secondary to 209.244.0.3.
• Create a playbook and roles to set up iptables on each machine.
  • All servers should drop all UDP and TCP as the default policy.
  • Open up TCP ports 21, 22, 53, and 123, and UDP port 53 on all servers.
  • Open up TCP ports 25, 110, and 143 on tiny-centos7.
  • Open up TCP ports 80 and 443 on tiny-centos7-b.