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+---
+
+- name: Install Python apt bindings
+  apt: name=python-apt
+
+- name: Add Prosody repository apt key
+  apt_key:
+    data: "{{ lookup('file', 'prosody-debian-packages.gpg') }}"
+    state: present
+
+- name: Add Prosody repository
+  apt_repository: repo="deb http://packages.prosody.im/debian jessie main" state=present
+
+- name: Install Lua Sec library (needed for TLS)
+  apt: name=lua-sec state=installed
+
+- name: Install Lua LDAP library
+  apt: name=lua-ldap state=installed
+
+- name: Install Prosody
+  apt: name=prosody state=installed
+
+- name: Allow Prosody user to traverse the directory with TLS private keys
+  user: name=prosody append=yes groups=ssl-cert
+
+- name: Deploy XMPP TLS private key
+  copy: dest="/etc/ssl/private/{{ xmpp_tls_key | basename }}" src="{{ xmpp_tls_key }}"
+        mode=640 owner=root group=prosody
+  notify:
+    - Restart Prosody
+
+- name: Deploy XMPP TLS certificate
+  copy: dest="/etc/ssl/certs/{{ xmpp_tls_certificate | basename }}" src="{{ xmpp_tls_certificate }}"
+        mode=644 owner=root group=root
+  notify:
+    - Restart Prosody
+
+- name: Set-up directory for storing additional Prosody modules
+  file: path=/usr/local/lib/prosody/modules/ state=directory mode=755 owner=root group=root
+
+- name: Deploy the Prosody mod_auth_ldap module
+  get_url: url=https://prosody-modules.googlecode.com/hg/mod_auth_ldap/mod_auth_ldap.lua
+           dest=/usr/local/lib/prosody/modules/mod_auth_ldap.lua
+
+- name: Set-up file permissions for the Prosody mod_auth_ldap module
+  file: dest=/usr/local/lib/prosody/modules/mod_auth_ldap.lua owner=root group=root mode=644
+
+- name: Deploy Prosody configuration file
+  template: src=prosody.cfg.lua.j2 dest=/etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua
+  notify:
+    - Restart Prosody
+
+- name: Enable and start Prosody service
+  service: name=prosody enabled=yes state=started
+
+- name: Deploy firewall configuration for XMPP server
+  copy: src="ferm_xmpp.conf" dest="/etc/ferm/conf.d/30-xmpp.conf" owner=root group=root mode=640
+  notify:
+    - Restart ferm
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