Ansible playbooks for a multi-purpose personal server.

Use a single DigitalOcean Ubuntu LTS droplet as a host. Include a public SSH key stored with DigitalOcean when creating the droplet. Enable droplet backups.

As primarily a .NET developer, I use a Windows development environment.

Windows is not supported for the control node. Ansible Docs

So, to get up and running, I am using WSL.

Follow the official docs for getting WSL up and running. Use the latest Ubuntu LTS image.

via Ansible Docs

• cp /path/to/id_rsa.pub ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
• cp /path/to/id_rsa ~/.ssh/id_rsa
• chmod 700 ~/.ssh
• chmod 644 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
• chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Clone this cbhost-ansible repo into a directory inside of the WSL instance.

Add the IP of the managed node droplet to /etc/ansible/hosts inside WSL.

• ansible all -m ping -u root
• ansible all -m ping
• ansible-playbook 00-cbhost.yml