Ansible playbook to setup plain VM

Script will be useful if you have some plain VM and want to quickly setup it. Playbook tested on Ubuntu 20.04

Requirements

• Ansible
• Any VM with SSH access
• OPTIONAL: Subscription on expressvpn.com (get the activation code)

Init

cp inventory.cfg.example inventory.cfg

Fill inventory.cfg with values. Example with ExpressVPN:

[target]
11.22.33.44 ansible_connection=ssh ansible_ssh_user=user

[target:vars]
ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3
setup_vpn=True
expressvpn_activation_code=JFJKAMV7171

Example without VPN(not recommended):

[target]
11.22.33.44 ansible_connection=ssh ansible_ssh_user=user

[target:vars]
ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/bin/python3
setup_vpn=False

Deploy

ansible-playbook -i inventory.cfg setup.yaml