README

This playbook is for LXC containers created with the `lxc` package
in Debian org Ubuntu, using the download template, with containers
running Debian 10.

(C) 2021 Bastiaan Welmers


Creating the LXC container
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See https://wiki.debian.org/LXC
The LXC containers are created on the server with:

# lxc-create -n containerhostname -t download
Then choose Debian, Buster, amd64

Next, you can start it with:
# lxc-start containerhostname


Making new container ready for running this playbook
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Get into the container:
# lxc-attach containerhostname

Then install openssh-server and python3:
containerhostname # apt install openssh-server python3

Next, install your pubkey in the authorized keys:
containerhostname # cd /root
containerhostname # mkdir .ssh
containerhostname # vim .ssh/authorized_keys
containerhostname # chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys 
containerhostname # chmod 700 .ssh

And you should be able to access your newly created host over the
network!


Installing python venv with ansible for playbook
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$ python3 -mvenv ~/venv/ansible-lxcservers
$ source ~/venv/ansible-lxcservers/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt


Running playbook
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Setup a new inventory, you can use `testlxcserver' file as an example.
Then:

$ ansible-playbook -u root --private-key=~/my_secret_ssh_key_for_my_servers -i testlxcserver lxcservers.yml