Homeserver IaC

This is my config to set up a Dell XPS 9360 as a home server.

Steps

Prep on dev laptop

Download an Arch linux ISO
Run ./mkiso.sh $path_to_arch_iso
Write the iso to a usb pen drive with sudo dd if=./archlinux-xxx.install_script.iso_ of=/path/to/usb/device bs=4M status=progress

Pre-setup on XPS

Boot XPS from this usb
Connect to internet, iwctl station wlan0 connect "wireless network name"
Copy the install script from usb
- mkdir archiso
- mount /dev/sda1 archiso
- cp archiso/install.sh .
- umount /dev/sda1
Run the install script ./install.sh
- This will install Arch, run ansible to install the things that can be installed as chroot, then restart the system

Updating the iso and extracting the script can be dropped in favour of pulling the script directly from github after connecting to the internet, this command will fetch and run it sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danmidwood/homeserver/master/install.sh)"

Post setup on dev laptop

Run ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts.ini playbooks/xps.yml