If you need to build your own Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin and Roundcube server for your own mail hosting, look no further than this all in one Ansible script. Just configure the global configuration file, run the script and BAM, you have a fully functioning mail server! This script completes an end to end configuration of the server and covers the following:
Changing your SSH keys is as important as changing your underpants daily, running this script on a frequent basis will ensure access to the servers are changed on a regular basis. Use Ansible to do ssh key rotation in your sleep!
This Ansible script will fully rotate your MySQL root account passwords (or change any MySQL account passwords if you change the script) and implement my.cf so you don’t have to keep putting the password in.
I’ve devised a handy way of regenerating SID’s on Microsoft operating systems using a third party tool and a little PowerShell magic.
If you have a self hosted Atlassian suite (Bitbucket, Confluence or Jira) you might want to consider creating a backup of the data to an external repository such as AWS S3 in-case your server fails.