Initial commit: Ansible configuration for monitoring stack

Contains:
- Production inventory (inventories/production/hosts)
- VictoriaMetrics installation (playbooks/monitoring/install_victoriametrics.yml)
- Vault setup and secrets management (playbooks/vault/)
- Base system configuration (playbooks/infrastructure/)
- Directory structure for monitoring components

playbooks/infrastructure/02-install-essentials.yml

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+---
+- name: Install essential packages
+  hosts: all_except_ansible
+  become: yes
+  
+  tasks:
+    - name: Install system utilities
+      apt:
+        name:
+          - curl
+          - wget
+          - git
+          - htop
+          - net-tools
+          - ufw
+          - software-properties-common
+          - ca-certificates
+          - gnupg
+          - lsb-release
+        state: present
+        update_cache: yes