ansible/roles/debian_common/tasks/main.yml

---
# Should contain only small tools that everyone can't live without
- name: Install basic tools
  when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"
  apt:
    name:
      - acl  # advanced ACL
      - apt  # better than apt-get
      - aptitude  # nice to have for Ansible
      - bash-completion  # because bash
      - curl  # better than wget
      - git  # code versioning
      - htop  # better than top
      - iotop  # monitor i/o
      - less  # i like cats
      - lsb-release
      - molly-guard  # prevent reboot
      - nano  # for vulcain
      - ntp  # network time sync
      - screen  # Vulcain asked for this
      - sudo
      - tmux  # For shirenn
      - tree  # create a graphical tree of files
      - vim  # better than nano
      - zsh  # to be able to ssh @erdnaxe
      - dnsutils  # dig
    update_cache: true
  register: apt_result
  retries: 3
  until: apt_result is succeeded

# Configure APT mirrors on Debian Stretch
- name: Configure APT mirrors
  when:
    - ansible_distribution == 'Debian'
    - ansible_distribution_release == 'stretch'
  template:
    src: apt/sources.list.j2
    dest: /etc/apt/sources.list
    mode: 0644

- name: Configure resolvconf
  template:
    src: resolv.conf
    dest: /etc/resolv.conf
    mode: 0644

- name: Remove smartmontols
  apt:
    pkg: smartmontools
    state: absent
    autoremove: true
  when: ansible_system_vendor == "QEMU"

- name: Remove useless packages from the cache
  apt:
    autoclean: true

- name: Remove dependencies that are no longer required
  apt:
    autoremove: true
...