Ansible role that installs a selection of useful, must-have utilities. Additional ones can be adding them to the utilities_extras list.
- ack: grep, optimized for programmers
- command-not-found: suggest installation of packages in interactive bash sessions
- curl: command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax
- dmidecode: reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard
- htop: interactive process viewer for Linux
- iftop: display bandwidth usage on an interface
- iotop: display io usage on behalf of which process on an interface
- nmap: Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Hacking
- mosh: mobile shell
- pciutils: collection of programs for inspecting and manipulating configuration of PCI devices
- sysstat: utility comprised of several tools that offers advanced system performance monitoring
- tmux: terminal multiplexer
- tshark: dump and analyze network traffic
- acl: much more flexible way of specifying permissions on a file or other object than the standard Unix
- apticron: Get email notifications for updates (needs configuration)
- debconf: utility for performing system-wide configuration tasks on Unix-like operating systems
- update-notifier-common: no explanation needed...
- Tested on Ansible 1.4 or higher
utilities_extras: [] # List of additional utility package names to be installedLicensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
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