Initial Lab Setup

playbooks/deploy_monitoring_lxc.yml

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+---
+- name: Infrastructure - Deploy Monitoring Container
+  hosts: lxc_hosts
+  become: true
+
+  pre_tasks:
+    - name: Ensure Host has LXC Python bindings
+      apt:
+        name: python3-lxc
+        state: present
+        update_cache: yes
+
+  tasks:
+    - name: Provision Debian 13 LXC
+      community.general.lxc_container:
+        name: monitoring-srv
+        template: debian
+        state: started
+        template_options: --release trixie
+        container_config:
+          - "lxc.net.0.type = veth"
+          - "lxc.net.0.link = lxcbr0" # Adjust to your bridge name
+          - "lxc.start.auto = 1"
+      
+    - name: Wait for Network
+      pause:
+        seconds: 10
+
+    - name: Prepare Container for Ansible
+      shell: |
+        lxc-attach -n monitoring-srv -- apt-get update
+        lxc-attach -n monitoring-srv -- apt-get install -y python3 openssh-server