walidsa3d / ansible-fail2ban

An Ansible role to install fail2ban on Ubuntu/Debian.

fail2ban

An Ansible role to install fail2ban on Ubuntu/Debian.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• Role Variables
• Dependencies
• Example Playbook
• Molecule Testing
• Contributing
• License

Requirements

• Ansible >= 2.9
• Supported platforms:
  • Ubuntu

Role Variables

The variables used in this role are defined in defaults/main.yml and can be customized as per your requirements. Here are some of the main variables:

Variable	Default Value	Description
logelevel	INFO	log level
ban_ignoreip	INFO	excluded ips
bantime	600	number of seconds an IP address is banned
findtime	600	retris must occur within the findtime duration.
maxretry	5	max retries before ban

Dependencies

This role has no external dependencies.

Example Playbook

Here is an example of how to use this role in a playbook:

---
- name: Install and configure Fail2ban.
  hosts: all
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: walidsa3d.failban

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.