My Ansible Playbooks ================= This is just my repository of playbooks. * create-user.yml * Creates a user with a password, a MySql DB, and an Apache virtual host. ### Setup Ansible sudo aptitude -y install git python-jinja2 python-yaml python-mysqldb python-paramiko python-software-properties software-properties-common add-apt-repository ppa:rquillo/ansible aptitude update && aptitude install ansible echo "localhost" > /etc/ansible/hosts You can now test by typing: ansible -c local -m ping all You should see: localhost | success >> { "changed": false, "ping": "pong" } ### Install passlib (for create-user.yml) wget https://passlib.googlecode.com/files/passlib-1.6.1.tar.gz tar -zxvf passlib-1.6.1.tar.gz cd passlib-1.6.1 python setup.py install ### Check my.cnf You may need to set up a ~/.my.cnf file for the user you'll run this as: [client] user=root password="mypassword" ### Run the play By executing the following, it will setup only the commonly used components: ansible-playbook -c local --tags="common" ./create-user.yml You can also just run the run-all script.