Ansible Role - GPG Key

Generate or import GPG Key on Linux.

Requirements

None.

TODO: Role Variables

variables/main.yml - There wasn't any variables and I've tried to write expected yaml. Should be rechecked.

Also file defaults/main.yml was slightly edited. Original in defaults/main.yml.backup

• renamed value of variable gpg_key_gen_user_email to {{ gpg_email }}
• insert new value to variable gpg_key_gen_passphrase: {{ passphrase }}

I've tried to run it in VirtualBox by ansible-playbook playbook.yml -k -K -s but I was getting an error:

PLAY [local] **************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] ****************************************************************
ok: [127.0.0.1]

TASK [vkill.gpg_key : Install dependent packages.] ************************************
skipping: [127.0.0.1] => (item=[]) 

TASK [vkill.gpg_key : Install dependent packages.] ************************************
ok: [127.0.0.1] => (item=[u'gnupg2'])

TASK [vkill.gpg_key : Ensure .gnupg config directory exists with right permissions] ***
fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The field 'become_user' has an invalid value, which includes an undefined variable. The error was: {{ ansible_user }}: 'ansible_user' is undefined\nexception type: <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleUndefinedVariable'>\nexception: {{ ansible_user }}: 'ansible_user' is undefined"}
	to retry, use: --limit @/home/codereview/duplicity/vkill/vkill.gpg_key/playbook.retry

PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************
127.0.0.1                  : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1   

Import of gpg key into keyring

After key generating should be sufficient just

gpg --import publickeyfile.pub

Now you have key in keyring a you can use it for encrypting messages or sign verifying. You should also copy key to your master machine in order to have an strong backup policy if slave dies. For this purpose can be used i.e. scp.

Copy files from a remote server (slave) to your current local server (master)

scp -r user@host:/path/to/source-files/ /path/to/destination-folder

Dependencies

shrikeh.haveged

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - role: vkill.gpg_key

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

vkill vkill.net@gmail.com

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