HeadlessPi.yml

---
- hosts: zStart
  vars:
    newuser: <username>
    newpassword : <password>
  tasks:
    - name: Ping the server.
      ping:

    - name: Make sure we have a 'wheel' group
      group:
        name: wheel
        state: present

    - name: Allow 'wheel' group to have passwordless sudo
      lineinfile:
        dest: /etc/sudoers
        state: present
        regexp: '^%wheel'
        line: '%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL'
        validate: 'visudo -cf %s'

    - name: Add sudoers users to wheel group
      user:
        name='{{newuser}}'
        groups=wheel
        append=yes
        state=present
        createhome=yes

    - name: Add new privileged user.
      user:
        name: "{{newuser}}"
        password: "{{ newpassword | password_hash('sha512') }}" 
        group: wheel
        groups:  wheel
        createhome: yes
        append: yes
        shell:  /bin/bash
        generate_ssh_key: yes
        ssh_key_bits: 2048
        ssh_key_file: .ssh/id_rsa

    - name: Create github directory
      file:
        path: /opt/github
        state: directory

    - name: install useful packages for network admin and home projects.
      apt:
        pkg:
        - ubuntu-dev-tools
        - build-essential
        - net-tools
        - clang-12 --install-suggests
        - manpages-dev
        - python3
        - zlib1g-dev
        - libncurses5-dev
        - libgdbm-dev 
        - libnss3-dev 
        - libssl-dev 
        - libreadline-dev 
        - libffi-dev 
        - wget

    - name: install Cisco Ansible Meraki Scripts.
      git:
        repo: 'https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/ansible-meraki.git'
        dest: /opt/github/
        clone: yes
        update: no

    - name: install Cisco vs-code for DevNet practice.
      git:
        repo: 'https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/vs-code-iox-client.git'
        dest: /opt/github/
        clone: yes
        update: no