Ansible Vagrant Ubuntu Playbook

To Do

• Manage users
• Secure SSH
• [] Manage firewall
• [] Prepare webserver
• [] Deploy web-app

Connecting to your machines after securing SSH

#Linux Generate your ssh Key by typing the command below in your virtual machines terminal.

• ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"
• Copy your ssh key/s to the servers in your inventory -- Add the new user and their key to ssh_users variables in (group_vars/secrets) -- Run the play (ansible-playbook -i hosts authentication.yml)
• You can now ssh into any machine by typing ssh username@ipaddress

#Windows You can also generate your key on Windows

• Install PuTTY and PuTTYgen -- Click generate and follow instructions. -- Save the generated PRIVATE (id_rsa) and PUBLIC key (id_rsa.ppk) files and copy the plaintext OpenSSH authorized_keys into (id_rsa.pub) (take note of this location since you need to copy these files over to your linux development box too) the default location is C:\Users\yourusername.ssh on windows and /home/yourusername/.ssh/ on linux -- On linux you will only need id_rsa and id_rsa.pub files -- On linux you will need to set the following permissions: --- chmod -R 0600 /home/yourusername/.ssh/ --- chmod -R 0600 /home/yourusername/.ssh/id_rsa --- chmod -R 0644 /home/yourusername/.ssh/id_rsa.pub -- These files on linux should be owned by (chown -R yourusername:yourusername /home/yourusername/.ssh/) -- After creating and adding the ssh keys to your local machines, add the new user and their key to ssh_users variables in (group_vars/secrets) to deploy the keys to your servers -- Run the play (ansible-playbook -i hosts authentication.yml)
• You can now ssh into any machine by typing ssh username@ipaddress

#PuTTY Make sure you add your public key to pageant putty authentication agent and refference the key in Connection > SSH > Auth

#Create your ssh key

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

The stack can be deployed using the following command:

ansible-playbook -i hosts provision.yml

ansible-playbook -i hosts -l puppet-master provision.yml

ansible-playbook -i hosts -l localhost localhost.yml

ansible-playbook -i hosts -l local localhost.yml

vagrant up --provision (Reset the machinr to default)