Nobodysbetter / ubuntu-desktop-ansible

Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop Ansible Provisioner

Requirements

Install ansible:

sudo apt install ansible

Install externally hosted roles from requirements.yml:

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Customization

Create the file ./host_vars/localhost.yml with your machine specific customizations.

Replacing dict values

Due to the deprecation of hash_behaviour = merge, some dicts explicitly use the combine filter. These vars are suffixed with _defaults, e.g. gnome_background_defaults. To replace a value, remove the _defaults prefix when setting vars, e.g. gnome_background.

Example host_vars file:

locale: en_US.UTF-8
localrtc: 0
timezone: America/New_York

# replace single value in dict
gnome_background:
  picture-uri: "'file:///usr/share/backgrounds/ubuntu-default-greyscale-wallpaper.png'"

Provisioning

local

Run against local machine:

ansible-playbook site.yml -i local --ask-become-pass 

vagrant

Install libvirt and virt-manager:

sudo apt install qemu-kvm virt-manager libvirt-daemon-system virtinst libvirt-clients dnsmasq-base libguestfs-tools nfs-kernel-server
sudo systemctl enable libvirtd --now
sudo adduser $(whoami) libvirt

Log out and log in to apply new groups before continuing.

Install vagrant and required plugins:

sudo apt install vagrant build-essential libvirt-dev ruby-libvirt
vagrant plugin install vagrant-env
vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

Copy .env.sample to .env and make any modifications:

cp .env.sample .env
editor .env

Start virtual machine using vagrant:

vagrant up

To re-run the ansible playbook:

vagrant provision --provision-with ansible