Refactor Ansible playbooks to comply with best practices and fix linting violations
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- Implement 4-role architecture (base_provision, patching, hardening, decommission)
- Extract hardcoded values to role defaults and group_vars
- Add Ansible Vault integration for secrets management
- Implement proper handlers for service restarts instead of direct tasks
- Add Molecule testing framework with Docker driver
- Configure ansible-lint with production profile settings

Fix all 125+ ansible-lint violations:
- Add FQCN (Fully Qualified Collection Names) to all modules
- Replace yes/no with true/false for boolean values
- Add explicit mode parameters to file/template operations
- Remove duplicate post_tasks blocks from playbooks
- Add newlines at end of all YAML files
- Fix key ordering in tasks (name, when, block)
- Convert service restarts to handlers with notify
- Remove ignore_errors in favor of failed_when/changed_when
- Fix line length violations and empty lines
- Add noqa comments for unavoidable risky-file-permissions

Update documentation:
- Add REFACTORING.md with implementation details
- Add VAULT_GUIDE.md for secrets management
- Add per-role README.md files
- Update existing documentation

All playbooks now pass ansible-lint production profile with 0 violations.
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# Hardening Role
Apply security hardening to enterprise infrastructure nodes following CIS benchmarks.
## Features
- **CIS Compliance**: Support for CIS hardening levels 1 and 2
- **SSH Hardening**: Disable root login, password auth, set auth limits
- **Firewall Configuration**: UFW with configurable rules
- **Service Cleanup**: Disable unnecessary services and remove insecure packages
- **Handlers**: SSH restarts via handlers
## Role Variables
See `defaults/main.yml` for all available variables.
### Key Variables
- `cis_level`: CIS hardening level (1 or 2)
- `disable_root_login`: Disable root SSH login (default: true)
- `secure_ssh_config`: Apply SSH security hardening (default: true)
- `firewall_policy`: Firewall default policy (default: deny)
- `ssh_max_auth_tries`: Maximum SSH authentication attempts (default: 3)
- `ssh_client_alive_interval`: SSH client alive interval in seconds (default: 300)
- `ssh_allowed_networks`: Networks allowed SSH access from
### SSH Allowed Networks
Default trusted networks:
- 10.0.0.0/8 (Private Class A)
- 172.16.0.0/12 (Private Class B)
- 192.168.0.0/16 (Private Class C)
## Usage
```yaml
- role: hardening
vars:
cis_level: 1
disable_root_login: true
ssh_allowed_networks:
- 10.0.0.0/8
- 203.0.113.0/24
```
## SSH Configuration Changes
- Root login disabled
- Password authentication disabled
- Maximum auth tries: 3
- Empty passwords prohibited
- Client alive interval: 300 seconds
- Client alive count max: 2
## Tags
- `hardening`: All hardening tasks
- `security`: Security-related tasks