How to setup Etherpad on Ubuntu 12.04 using Ansible

This guide assumes that you are trying to install Etherpad Lite on a server running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS where you have SSH access.

• Install Ansible on your local machine.
• Setup a SSH key pair if you don't already have one
• copy your public key to the remote host: ex. ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@host.org
• copy these files to a directory on your local machine
• add the DNS for your server to your inventory.ini
• run the playbook: ansible-playbook install.yml --extra-vars='host=pad_server user=username' -i inventory.ini
• sit back and relax :)