ESGF Node deployment with Ansible

Documentation of using Ansible to automate the installation of a ESGF Node.

Tasks

1. ESGF Autoinstaller - ​https://github.com/ESGF/esgf-installer/wiki/ESGF-Installation-Using-Autoinstaller
2. Creation of users - Create a user with name esgfuser. Is this user supposed to run the esgf services? Is it supposed to be accessible from ssh?
3. ZFS?
4. NFS - https://meteo.unican.es/trac/wiki/Equipos/Seal/NFSServer/NfsEsgf
5. Hour synchronization - ntpdate -u hora.rediris.es
6. PKI keys? - Which users can ssh?
7. Firewall
   1. Table filter
      1. Policy - DROP
      2. iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j ACCEPT -s 192.168.x.x/24

Set up from scratch

1. Create virtual machine
2. Create esgfuser
3. Install Ansible (​https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html)
4. Execute ansible playbook
5. Follow instructions to install ESGF node (https://meteo.unican.es/trac/wiki/ESGFNodeTutorial)