afronski / localhost-with-chef-solo

Provisioning stationary PC and laptop with Chef-Solo.

What?

Customized scripts for provisioning automatically my local development environment.

Requirements

• Semi-automatic scripts and orchestration for provisioning most recent ArchLinux version.
• Up-to-date.
• Backuping scripts (/home, /etc, shared configuration files).
• Setting up only the necessary minimum:
  • Locales, fonts, tty settings.
  • grub + slim
  • /etc and /home configuration files from dotfiles repository.
  • X + xmonad + xmobar + yeganesh
  • VirtualBox + vagrant
  • Editors
  • Browsers
  • zsh and oh-my-zsh (from my fork).
  • ghc + cabal
  • Python
    • 2.7
    • 3.4
    • virtualenv + pip
  • RVM (with 1.9.3 and 2.0.0 and bundler).
  • NVM (0.8, 0.10 and 0.11).
  • OpenSSH (keys and configuration provided as a parameter).
  • OpenVPN (certificates delivered as a parameter).
    • Remember about network-manager configuration.
  • JDK + JRE (multiple versions - 1.7 and 1.8) + scala + sbt + clojure + leiningen.
  • Setting up docker and LXC.
  • Basic set of programs and tools:
    • vim, emacs, sublime-text, sublime-text-dev
    • feh, rfkill, slock, stalonetray, bumblebee, bbswitch, nvidia, nvidia-tools
    • curl, wget, rsync, tcpdump, wvdial, wpa_supplicant, wireless_tools, nm-applet
    • htop, powertop, iotop, strace, ltrace, gdb, cgdb
    • gcc, g++, make, autotools, cmake, scons, valgrind
    • evince, thunar, xarchiver, rxvt-unicode
    • mpd, mpdscribble, ncmpcpp, mpc, vlc, mplayer
    • zip, unzip, p7zip, rar
    • pacaur, colordiff, git, subversion, cpupower
  • Global npm modules:
    • yo
    • jsontool
    • grunt-cli
    • jshint
    • less
    • bower
    • uglify-js
• The simplest possible orchestration for that requirements.

TODO

• Adjusting existing repository to the requirements and major rewrite which drops the deprecated chef-solo out.