Install and configure sysstat using Ansible

#!/usr/bin/env ansible-playbook 

- hosts: YOUR_HOSTNAME
  remote_user: YOUR_REMOTEUSER 
  become: yes
  connection: ssh

  tasks:
    - name: Install and start as service sysstat for Ubuntu 
      block:
      - package:
          name: sysstat
          state: present	

      - lineinfile:
          path: /etc/default/sysstat
          state: present
          backrefs: yes
          regexp: '^ENABLED="false"'
          line: 'ENABLED="true"'

      - service:
          name: sysstat
          state: started
          enabled: yes
      when: ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu'

Activities

1. Modify Ansible playbook to include a parameters for modifying default collection interval and collection options: SADC_OPTIONS="-S XALL" in /etc/sysstat/sysstat (man sadc for more options)

See also

1. Configure user to be able to use sudo with no password

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