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
- dstat: tool for generating system resource statistics
- dmidecode: reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard
- ethtool: display or change ethernet card settings
- 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
- iperf: TCP/UDP bandwidth measurement tool
- lsof: list open files
- ltrace: library call tracer
- nmap: Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Hacking
- mosh: mobile shell
- mtr: a network diagnostic tool
- netcat: reads and writes data across network
- pciutils: collection of programs for inspecting and manipulating configuration of PCI devices
- pstack: attaches to the active processes named by the pids on the command line , and prints out an execution stack trace
- pv: see the progress of data through a pipeline
- smem: provides numerous reports on memory usage
- socat: establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them
- strace: trace system calls and signals
- sysstat: utility comprised of several tools that offers advanced system performance monitoring
- tmux: terminal multiplexer
- tree: recursive directory listing program
- 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.
Are welcome!