Use ansible playbook to deploy a flask api server
- the playbook will install python3, pip and flask
- then it will config the api.py to run as a systemd daemon and send logs to rsyslog
- the api.py accepts https requests for localhost status, like realtime cpu, mem usage and partitiones
- it's tested on a CentOS7 Google Compute Engine. Firewall rules and file paths may need to be modified if it runs on other platform
Security Risk:
- It uses the same self-signed certificate keypair on different servers
Todo: Documentation