Chages in playbook to connect as a root user.

playbooks/lxc_setup_ubuntu.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 - name: Secure and Configure a New LXC Container
   hosts: 'lxc' # Hosts or group defined in your inventory
-  become: yes # Run all tasks as root (sudo)
+  remote_user: root
   tasks:
     - name: 1. Create user '{{ target_user }}'
       ansible.builtin.user:

vars.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 # User which will be created on the LXC containers to replace root
 target_user: 'mbuz'
 
-# User which Ansible will use to connect to the LXC containers initially
-ansible_user: 'root'
-
 # List of public keys to be added to the target_user's authorized_keys file
 my_public_keys:
   - "ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAINSGj0dxaA38QSBVY3DZiPb+qmIuTFxGo0mt4sbmYDa3 mbuz@macbook-pro"