Ansible Bootstrap

Install Ansible by copying and pasting the following command:

RAW_URL: ansible-bootstrap.sh \curl -L RAW_URL | sh

This command should be idempotent. TODO be able to specify the version of Ansible.

Introduction

Ansible is a swiss army knife for provisioning and maintaining home directories. It is therefore very useful to have

Bootstrap process

Key assumptions

we have (complete and unfettered) sudo access to the local machine
curl, wget and apt-get are the only available methods of grabbing extra resources
Mac OS X doesn't have a decent package manager by default, we assume that the user has installed Homebrew.

Bootstrapping Ansible

Here's a rundown of what the script does:

ensure there's a working package manager
install Python 2.7.3 + pip through package manager
install Ansible dependencies globally with pip
install Ansible

On Ubuntu

aptitude is already installed with any distribution
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rquillo/ansible
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ansible

On Mac OS X

I endorse the use of Homebrew for package management under Max OS X. However there exists no Homebrew Formula for installing Ansible. Until there is one, we will install Ansible manually.

fatuhoku / ansible-bootstrap