Deploy Carbon Black linux sensor to your endpoints with a simple Ansible playbook.

You can bake some things into your gold images and/or deploy after the servers are up. Unlike other AVs, Carbon Black makes it easy to do both but in this article we will talk about deploying it after the ubuntu server is up with Ansible.

There are 2 requirements to this playbook. First get the company code from your Carbon Black console. Second, download the sensor from the Carbon Black console ahead of time to to avoid sign-in or MFA. I have 2 examples here where you can download it to the local ansible agent and copy it to the remote server or you can download from Azure storage blob.

The ansible playbook is simple but I added some conditions to make it idempotent.