Add user with ansible

Adding a new user to your system with ansible

Descrition

Ansible is an open-source software provisioning, configuration management, and application-deployment tool. It runs on many Unix-like systems, and can configure both Unix-like systems as well as Microsoft Windows. It uses YAML syntax. The task is to add a new user to the system. The ansible user module can be used to accomplish this. The docs can be looked upon here - https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/user_module.html

Running the playbook

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➜  ~ ansible-playbook adduser.yaml -K

Adding a user requires root privileges so this prompts for the password. (note that the current user needs to have access to sudo)