VM Ansible

IPv4: 5.196.203.189
Virtual MAC: 02:00:00:a0:6c:e0
OS: Ubuntu 14.04

Configuration

Installed from VM-template

Configure network interface

$ vi /etc/network/interfaces

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
   address 5.196.203.189
   netmask 255.255.255.255
   broadcast 5.196.203.189
   post-up route add 37.59.46.254 dev eth0
   post-up route add default gw 37.59.46.254
   pre-down route del 37.59.46.254 dev eth0
   pre-down route del default gw 37.59.46.254
   dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

Change hostname

$ echo "ansible" | sudo tee /etc/hostname
$ vi /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       ansible
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Install Ansible

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev
$ sudo easy_install markupsafe
$ sudo pip install ansible
$ sudo mkdir -p /etc/ansible/playbooks
$ sudo adduser ansible
$ sudo adduser ansible sudo
$ sudo su - ansible -c ssh-keygen
$ sudo vi /home/ansible/.bashrc

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"

function start_agent {
     echo "Initialising new SSH agent..."
     /usr/bin/ssh-agent | sed 's/^echo/#echo/' > "${SSH_ENV}"
     echo succeeded
     chmod 600 "${SSH_ENV}"
     . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
     /usr/bin/ssh-add;
}
 
# Source SSH settings, if applicable
 
if [ -f "${SSH_ENV}" ]; then
     . "${SSH_ENV}" > /dev/null
     ps -ef | grep ${SSH_AGENT_PID} | grep ssh-agent$ > /dev/null || {
         start_agent;
     }
else
     start_agent;
fi

Firewall

Managed via PVE interface:

• Global configuration:
• Input policy: Drop
• Output policy: Accept
• Proxmox server specific configuration
• Input Accept SSH macro