Ansible Setup – Recommended approach

• User Setup:
  • Ensure password based authentication is setup temporarily atleast till we finish the next steps
  • edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and ensure password authenication is set to yes. and restart ssh service
  • Create a common user devops on all nodes (including ansible control node)
    sudo adduser devops
  • Grant administrative permissions for devops user for no password prompts
    “`
    sudo visudo

  add the following entry

  devops ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
  * create a key pair for `devops` user
  ssh-keygen
  * copy the public key of devops from ansible control node to other nodes
  ssh-copy-id
  “`