Playbook: Server Deployment from Scratch

Goal

Provision and configure a new server with secure and automated baseline.

Steps

1. Provision VM or bare metal

2. Proxmox template, ISO, or cloud-init

3. Bootstrap access

   useradd -m username
   usermod -aG wheel username
   

4. Harden SSH and enable firewall

5. Disable root login

6. Setup firewalld rules

7. Install and run Ansible role

   ansible-playbook -i inventory bootstrap.yml
   

8. Tag and document

9. Hostname, IP, purpose
10. Add to monitoring

Output

Server in production with baseline config, secure access, and monitoring enabled.