This flag is necessary for Ansible to ask for the sudo password when using the non-root option as documented in the `hosts` file. Otherwise, Ansible errors out with `missing sudo password`.
**Note**: if you don't use SSH keys for authentication, but rather a regular password, you may need to add `--ask-pass` to the above (and all other) Ansible commands.
**Note**: if you don't use SSH keys for authentication, but rather a regular password, you may need to add `--ask-pass` to the above (and all other) Ansible commands.
**Note**: if you **do** use SSH keys for authentication, **and** use a non-root user to *become* root (sudo), you may need to add `-K` (`--ask-become-pass`) to the above (and all other) Ansible commands.
The above command **doesn't start any services just yet** (another step does this later - below).
The above command **doesn't start any services just yet** (another step does this later - below).
Feel free to **re-run this setup command any time** you think something is off with the server configuration.
Feel free to **re-run this setup command any time** you think something is off with the server configuration.