To use the playbook, create a yaml file credentials.yml with the following content (you can use vault to encrypt): jid: yourjabber@id.to.use password: yourpasswordforthisjabber rooms: - debianforum.de@chat.debianforum.de # your channel - spielwiese@chat.debianforum.de # bot playground bot_nickname: T800 # your bots nickname bot_owner: MASTER # your nickname (for info and admin stuff) Further, you need a hosts-file with the following content: [bots] yourserverip # or alternatively, derpy_name ansible_host=yourserverip There is deploy.sh which I created so I have a single file to deploy my stuff - it uses a virtualenv (py2!) with ansible and some vault file declaration.