Provisioning Task: Ansible Automation for New Servers

Goal

Apply baseline configuration to new servers using reusable Ansible roles and inventory.

Steps

1. Prepare inventory

   [new_servers]
   server1 ansible_host=192.168.1.10
   

2. Run bootstrap playbook

   - hosts: new_servers
     become: yes
     roles:
       - { role: base-config }
   

3. Execute playbook

   ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini bootstrap.yml
   

4. Verify

5. Check user accounts
6. SSH hardened
7. Firewall enabled

Output

Configured servers with systemd, logging, user, and security baseline applied.