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Setup New User and SSH Key Auth. using Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04

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Muhammad Arul
May 25, 2018

Ansible is a simple automation tool that automates software applications deployment, cloud provisioning, and configuration management. It’s a server orchestration tool that helps you to manage and control a large number of server nodes from single places called ‘Control Machines’. In this tutorial, we will learn how to deploy a new user and enable the SSH Key-Based authentication using the automation tool Ansible.

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Muhammad Arul

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