This Ansible role that updates apt and upgrades all packages. It then installs the following packages:

• git
• ntp
• unattended-upgrades
• build-essential
• libreadline6
• libreadline6-dev
• curl
• zlib1g
• zlib1g-dev
• libssl-dev
• libyaml-dev
• libsqlite3-dev
• sqlite3
• libxml2-dev
• libxslt1-dev
• autoconf
• libc6-dev
• libncurses5-dev
• automake
• libtool
• bison
• pkg-config

Finally it sets the default timezone for the server. We use this as the base image for all our Ruby and Node.js applications.

$ ansible-galaxy install crushlovely.linux-base

time_zone: UTC

Once this role is installed on your system, include it in the roles list of your playbook.

---
- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - { role: crushlovely.linux-base }

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