ansible-role-docker VS xsrv

In this case, yeah sure, go ahead. Looks fine. But is the package really not available at all or rather called differently? (from my perspective packages named equally across a wide range of distros / package managers aren't to common) In the later case you would / could load a var file with a variable which contains distro-specific package names for Redhat and just reference the variable in your install task. (see for example https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-docker/blob/master/tasks/main.yml#L2 and https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-docker/tree/master/vars)

To install docker, there's multiple examples to find, I'd start with this role : https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-docker

You might want to check out https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-docker

before writing a playbook, check for an existing role to do the work for you

This might not be the answer you're looking for, but geerlingguy.docker is pretty good

I mark bugs, security-related issues, and planned features with appropriate labels, and the stale bot ignores those: https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-docker/blob/mast...

Not all maintainers do the same. And some even _lock issues_, which I hate, because even closed issues can have a very fruitful discussion long after the issue was originally posted.

As a teaching example, installing your own docker this way might be good.But it would be better to install using a role. One you design yourself, or even better use an existing role like geerlingguy.docker.

I use ansible to setup the docker VMs after provisioning (https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-docker)

PS. As a slight sidenote, I just wanted to thank you for your (many!) Ansible roles - today I was able to run Docker in Ansible in my side project because of your docker ansible role to investigate Opensearch. Just wanted to say thanks you very much

Yes, OpenLDAP installed from this ansible role

It's dead easy to use TCP/SSL instead of UDP to forward logs. Example rsyslog config

I use rsyslog for that since it's the default in Debian. Configuring forwarding is very simple, a single file in /etc/rsyslog.d/forwarding.conf [1]. Note that this setup uses TLS to encrypt messages so you need to create the relevant certificates (I use self-signed certs). Unencrypted TCP or UDP is simpler, but less secure.

preseed.cfg contains a few basic options needed to setup the OS [1]

I do this with https://github.com/nodiscc/xsrv/tree/master/roles/openldap + https://github.com/nodiscc/xsrv/tree/master/roles/samba. It's just a standalone samba server + LDAP auth for users, no DC or anything like that, so I'm not sure this is what you're looking for.

This ansible role (check the tasks/ directory) gives a good breakdown of what is needed to setup a basic LDAP server and authentication service

I use samba in standalone mode with or without LDAP auth https://github.com/nodiscc/xsrv/tree/master/roles/samba