Install Guacamole - HTML5 RDP Gateway

1 general

• guacamole is a great way to present windows apps and desktops to the internet.
  

You have only one https port open to the internet and the application is working pretty nice and fast.

• https://guacamole.apache.org/
• Tested with Rocky Linux 9

You can install Ansible on a separated control node as well, then you need to configure ansible target host with ssh keys.
For that, you can look into my ansible course at

• https://github.com/joe-speedboat/workshop.ansible

2 install

• do this steps as root user

2.1 setup ansible

yum  makecache
yum -y upgrade
curl -L ansible.bitbull.ch | bash

2.2 prepare ansible role

ansible-galaxy install joe-speedboat.guacamole
ansible-galaxy install joe-speedboat.mariadb
ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.posix community.mysql community.general

vim /etc/ansible/playbooks/install_guacamole.yml
----------
- hosts: localhost
  become: True
  vars:
    mariadb_user_password: '.change-this_000.'
    mariadb_root_password: '.change-this_111.'
  tasks:
  - dnf:
      name: firewalld
  - systemd:
      name: firewalld
      state: started
      enabled: True
  - firewalld:
      service: https
      permanent: true
      state: enabled
  - systemd:
      name: firewalld
      state: restarted
      enabled: True
  roles:
  - joe-speedboat.guacamole
----------

2.3 fire

ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/playbooks/install_guacamole.yml

2.4 remove ansible

• if not needed anymore
• note passwords from setup above as needed

dnf -y remove ansible-core
rm -rfv /etc/ansible
rm -rf $HOME/.ansible

2.5 Test

• firefox: https://guacamole-host.domain.local

• user: guacadmin
• password: guacadmin