Basic Linux services and network laboratory

Description

This playbook deploys a simple environment to be used as a network and Linux services laboratory, which consists of a master host that runs named, dhcpd, and vsftpd, and a client host that has access to those services. This is for educational purposes only.

Requirements

• Hosts run the following centOS image: CentOS 7 x86_64 Minimal 2009.
• Hosts run on the same network segment as the ansible controller, and have connectivity against each other.
• The ansible controller has SSH access to all hosts through root user with password.

Usage

• Provision a master and a client.
• Use the provided hosts.example file to build your '/etc/ansible/hosts' file.
• Copy the provided group_vars files to '/etc/ansible/hosts/group_vars/' and edit with the parameters you want for your environment.
• Run the following ansible commands to build the laboratory:

# ansible-playbook main.yml --tags access -k
# ansible-playbook main.yml --tags base
# ansible-playbook main.yml --tags lab