Ansible Role: Common

Installs common packages on Debian/Ubuntu linux servers.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

common_packages:
  - haveged
  - curl
  - git
  - zip
  - unzip
  - vim
  - logrotate
  - nano
  - python-pip
  - wget
  - tar
  - pbzip2
  - bzip2
  - mc
  - bash-completion
  - mosh
  - hdparm
  - htop
  - iptraf
  - iftop
  - iotop
  - ncftp
  - screen
  - dnsutils

Define locale with:

common_locale: 'de_DE.UTF-8'

common_local_apt_packages:
  - locales
  - language-pack-en
  - language-pack-de

common_locale_generate_languages:
  - en_US.UTF-8
  - de_DE.UTF-8

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: server
  roles:
    - { role: tschifftner.common }

Supported OS

• Debian 9 (Stretch)
• Debian 8 (Jessie)
• Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)
• Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

Required ansible version

Ansible 2.5+

License

MIT License

Author Information

• Tobias Schifftner, ambimax® GmbH