Preparing remote server

Prepare the server for Ansible deployments

Server Requirements
Operating System
DISK
Memory
CPU
Ubuntu 20.04 amd64 (oraclejdk required). It may seem like other versions of Ubuntu will be fine, but they are not.
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Minimum 25GB of free disk, 50GB recommended for production servers
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Minimum 8GB
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At least one 2.00GHz CPU or EC2 compute unit
Installing necessary packages
If you have existing servers that are already managed with Ansible, then please ignore this section. However, if you're setting up a new server to use for deployment or testing purposes and want it available via Ansible, follow the instructions below
SSH to your remote server and run the following command
Example ssh [email protected]
sudo apt-get update -y && \
sudo apt-get install -y python-setuptools && \
sudo apt-get install python3-pip -y && \
sudo apt-get install python-pip -y && \
pip install boto3

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Operating System	DISK	Memory	CPU
Ubuntu 20.04 amd64 (oraclejdk required). It may seem like other versions of Ubuntu will be fine, but they are not.	Minimum 25GB of free disk, 50GB recommended for production servers	Minimum 8GB	At least one 2.00GHz CPU or EC2 compute unit