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Run Your Own OpenVPN Server
Introduction The article explains how to run your own OpenVPN server. We will create a Certificate Authority Server and an OpenVPN server. We will also generate certificates for the clients. We will also learn how to manage revocation of client certificates using the Ansible roles.
Use the Ansible roles gavika.openvpn and gavika.easy_rsa to install and configure your OpenVPN server.
You can install the OpenVPN server on any public cloud or hosting provider or on-premise servers.
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Creating Administrative Linux User Accounts: gavika.administrators
We are pleased to announce gavika.administrators.
The Ansible role provides a declarative method to create Linux user accounts with administrative privileges. In other words, these users have sudo access without password and are empowered to run all commands on the system.
You might be wondering why you would need a role when you can write a couple tasks yourselves in an Ansible playbook. The reason is, Do Not Repeat Yourself(DRY). Instead of writing such tasks over and over, use the abstraction provided by the role.
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Gavika Ansible Roles
Yesterday, we announced the launch of Ansible role to install and configure AWS CloudWatch Agent.
You might have seen my other open source Ansible roles on Ansible Galaxy and Github.
In the same spirit, the company, Gavika Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, has started publishing open source projects on Github.
Ansible role to install and configure AWS CloudWatch Agent is the first project. Expect more projects in the future.
These are some guidelines for the Ansible role projects that Gavika follows:
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