The Ansible Playbook that will Harden Your VPS

Short summary

The author shares three Ansible playbooks for VPS management: basic-secure.yml for hardening (random passwords, UFW, Fail2Ban, custom SSH port), add-vps-user.yml for user creation, and remove-vps-user.yml for removal. The hardening playbook covers sudo user setup, firewall rules, SSH lockdown, and systemd socket configuration. It's a practical, copy-paste-ready infrastructure guide.

• •Three Ansible playbooks for VPS hardening, user add, and user removal
• •Hardening covers UFW, Fail2Ban, custom SSH port 2222, root login disable
• •Includes full YAML playbook code for direct use

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