croissong / ansible-arch-linux

Ansible playbook for provisioning Arch Linux [in progress]

ansible-arch-linux

A set of Ansible playbooks for provisioning Arch Linux.

Inspired by: https://github.com/pigmonkey/spark

Usage

1. Download and verify latest ArchLinux ISO:

make iso

2. Write the ISO image to a USB flash drive:

dd bs=4M if=archlinux-$VERSION-dual.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress && sync

3. Boot into ArchLinux Live CD.

4. Download and decompress playbook from GitHub:

curl -L https://github.com/zoresvit/ansible-arch-linux/archive/master.tar.gz | tar -xz
cd zoresvit-ansible-arch-linux

5. Install Ansible and passlib (for hashing password):

pacman -Sy ansible python2-passlib

6. Run Ansible to provision base system:

ansible-playbook -i localhost install.yml

7. After the reboot login into the new system and run Ansible to install and configure full-featured Arch Linux:

ansible-playbook --ask-become-pass -i localhost config.yml

Notes

Generating SSH key:

   ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "${USER}@${HOSTNAME}-$(date -I)"