ANXS - utilities

Ansible role that installs a selection of useful, must-have utilities. Additional ones can be adding them to the utilities_extras list.

The list of basic utilities includes:

• ack: grep, optimized for programmers
• command-not-found: suggest installation of packages in interactive bash sessions
• curl: command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax
• dstat: tool for generating system resource statistics
• dmidecode: reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard
• ethtool: display or change ethernet card settings
• htop: interactive process viewer for Linux
• iftop: display bandwidth usage on an interface
• iotop: display io usage on behalf of which process on an interface
• iperf: TCP/UDP bandwidth measurement tool
• lsof: list open files
• ltrace: library call tracer
• nmap: Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Hacking
• mosh: mobile shell
• multitail: interactively tail multiple files
• mtr: a network diagnostic tool
• ncdu: interactive console disk usage visualizer
• netcat: reads and writes data across network
• pciutils: collection of programs for inspecting and manipulating configuration of PCI devices
• pstack: attaches to the active processes named by the pids on the command line , and prints out an execution stack trace
• pv: see the progress of data through a pipeline
• smem: provides numerous reports on memory usage
• socat: establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them
• strace: trace system calls and signals
• sysstat: utility comprised of several tools that offers advanced system performance monitoring
• tmux: terminal multiplexer
• tree: recursive directory listing program
• tshark: dump and analyze network traffic

Distribution specific utilities:

Debian/Ubuntu/...:

• acl: much more flexible way of specifying permissions on a file or other object than the standard Unix
• apticron: Get email notifications for updates (needs configuration)
• debconf: utility for performing system-wide configuration tasks on Unix-like operating systems
• update-notifier-common: no explanation needed...

Requirements & Dependencies

• Tested on Ansible 2.3 or higher

Variables

utilities_extras: []            # List of additional utility package names to be installed

Testing

This project comes with a VagrantFile, this is a fast and easy way to test changes to the role, fire it up with vagrant up

See vagrant docs for getting setup with vagrant

License

Licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Feedback, bug-reports, requests, ...

Are welcome!