bensialih / fail2ban

ansible deployment of fail2ban on Amazon linux 2023

fail2ban

About

this repo looks at a setup of fail2ban on an ec2 amazon linux 2023 server

Steps

• launch desired servers

Ansible requirements

• required: inventory.ini

[pitcher]
ip_here

[catcher]
ip_here

[hosts:children]
pitcher
catcher


[pitcher:vars]
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/location_of_ssh_key
ansible_ssh_user=ec2-user
ansible_host_key_checking=False

[catcher:vars]
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/location_of_ssh_key
ansible_ssh_user=ec2-user
ansible_host_key_checking=False


[hosts:vars]
ansible_ssh_private_key_file=~/.ssh/location_of_ssh_key
ansible_ssh_user=ec2-user
ansible_host_key_checking=False

running Ansible

check servers are reachable

• ansible hosts -m ping -i ./inventory.ini

run ansible playbook

• ansible-playbook ./main.yml -i ./inventory.ini