managing sshd with Ansible

My environment has two common tasks when managing OpenSSH servers: copying user’s authorized_keys files to the server, and changing the sshd configuration file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. I use Ansible for both, using a single playbook. Running the playbook updates all the authorized_keys files on every host and verifies that sshd is properly configured. (Not that any of my minions would reconfigure sshd without going through change control, or anything like that.)

I’ll start with authorized_keys ma...