Ansible playbook roles for server provisioning.

What is it?

ansible-playbook for quick deployment of trading and/or development configuration to a Ubuntu 16.04 host.

No. It's a default configuration meant to help you get started quickly.

Baseline (all hosts)
- Update and upgrade already installed system packages.
Sysadmin (all hosts)
- Enable NTP.
- Install and enable sysstat.
- Install sysadmin command-line tools.
- Do NOT capture bash history (for security reasons).
- Enable automatic system updates (for security reasons, not necessarily good for stabilty).
Conda (all hosts)
- Install the Miniconda3 package manager (system-wide).
Tuning (trading hosts)
- Kernel configuration (/etc/sysctl.conf).
- Tune network stack for low latency.
Docker (trading hosts)
- Install the Docker container manager (system-wide).
Infra (trading hosts)
- Create trading user/group (for the deployment of software).
- Create algo user/group (for the deployment of your strategies).
Nginx (trading hosts)
- Install the Nginx reverse proxy server.
Redis (trading hosts)
- Install the Redis in-memory database.
Netdata (trading hosts)
- Install the Netdata real-time performance and health-monitoring system.
Prometheus (trading hosts)
- Install the Prometheus monitoring system and time-series database.
Roq Trading (trading hosts)
- Install and configure gateways.
- Configure crontab to start/stop the gateways.
Devtools (development hosts)
- Install development tools (mostly focused on C-style languages).
- Default git configuration (system-wide).
- Default vim configuration, including useful plugins (system-wide).

The playbook assumes an "ansible" sudo-enabled user has been configured on the VM.

ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass --private-key ~/.ssh/<pem-file> --inventory-file <your inventory> site.yml

Your inventory must list the IP addresses of your VMs. Follow the guidelines from here.