An ansible playbook to provision a new linode and give it a hostname and a FQDN, deploys a public ssh key under its root account and disable password based ssh login.

The default creates a Linode 1024 in Tokyo 2, JP. It gives installs Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

pip3 install linode_api4

Create a .vault_pass file containing a strong password in the project root

  openssl rand -base64 64 > .vault_pass
  cp vars.example vars
  ansible-vault encrypt vars

Update vars file and run playbook

  ansible-playbook --extra-vars hostname=<your_hostname> provision.yml