quasipedia / ansible-dotfiles

Dotfiles (and more) provisioned by ansible

Dotfiles (and more) provisioned by ansible

If you know what dotfiles are and what ansible is, you should pretty much understand what this repository does. But if that is not the case:

This repository provides a one-command way to setup and configure to your liking a brand new machine.

To be more specific: this repo allows to configure a machine the way I like it. Unless you happen to have exactly the same tastes and preferences that I do, you will need to create your own ansible roles / tweak mines.

Dependencies

• ansible installed on the local machine
• A sudo-enabled account on the target machine
• [If you need password for either SSH or sudo, sshpass installed on the local machine]

How to run it

The general syntax is:

ansible-playbook <playbook> -i <hostname-or-ip>, [--user=<user> --ask-pass --ask-sudo-pass -vvvv]

Examples:

ansible-playbook create-user.yml -i 192.168.122.102, --user=root --ask-pass
ansible-playbook workstation.yml -i 192.168.122.102, -vvvv

Available playbooks

Since I use Fedora as a workstation and the servers I need to work on are CentOS, these ansible playbooks relies heavily on RPM's.

Currently there are three playbooks:

• create-user: This is a self-contained playbook rarely used on those system when a user need to be created by root after installation (currently: only legacy CentOS versions)
• server: sets console environment, preferences, plugins for CLI commands...
• workstation: almost a superset of server, also installs a number of software for the Gnome3 shell as well.

server and workstation depends from a playbook common that can (but should not) be run on its own.

Available roles

I wrote this as the first file of the repository, and I am checking roles as the work progresses...

###General:

• ansible-target: make sure python binding for selinux are installed
• ssh-keys: set up SSH to work without requiring a password
• colemak-user: set the colemak as default layout for the user
• zsh: install and set up ZSH as the default shell for user
• python: install both python 2 and 3 + pip, wheel, virtualenv...
• git: git settings, plugins, etc...
• antigen: install antigen and the preference files
• localbin-path: make sure .local/bin is in the user's $PATH
• vim: vim settings, plugins, etc...
• ansible-util: small ansible utils

###Workstation-specific:

• colemak-host: set colemak as the default layout for the machine
• fusion: install the fusion repo
• boxes-util: install a small utility for SSH into gnome-boxes VM's
• fedy: install fedy
• graphics: install proprietary graphic drivers
• atom: install atom and all relevant plugins

###Server-specific:

• epel: install the EPEL repo