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Simple Ansible playbook to install Fail2ban.
---
- name: installs fail2ban on ansible hosts
hosts: fail2ban-hosts
become: yes
tasks:
- name: install apt fail2ban packages
apt:
name: "{{ item }}"
state: latest
update_cache: yes
cache_valid_time: 3600
with_items:
- fail2ban
- sendmail
- name: override the basic fail2ban configuration with .local file
copy:
src: jail.local
dest: /etc/fail2ban/jail.local
owner: root
group: root
mode: 0644
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5car1z commented May 18, 2018

Needs to be accompanied by jail.local template file e.g. https://gist.github.com/5car1z/9c143fd17e61d074ec95207380ba9969

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5car1z commented May 18, 2018

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