Your supervisor has asked you to find a way to automate and audit basic system configuration for new servers in your environment. Given that Ansible is already configured at a basic level in your environment, the simplest solution would be to just write a playbook for bootstrapping your new hosts.

Create a playbook called /home/ansible/bootstrap.yml to fulfill the following boot strap requirements:

All servers:

Edit /etc/hosts to include the following entry: ansible.xyzcorp.com 169.168.0.1

Install elinks

Create the user xyzcorp_audit

Copy the files /home/ansible/motd and /home/ansible/issue to /etc/

Network servers:

Install nmap-ncat

Create the user xyzcorp_network

SysAdmin servers:

Copy /home/ansible/scripts.tgz from the control node to /mnt/storage

The Ansible control node has been configured for you and each testing server has already been configured for use with Ansible. The default inventory has been configured to include a the groups network and sysadmin. Each group includes a sample host.