Ansible scripts provision a computer to my tastes

Easily setup up a machine to my liking using ansible. Should work on recent-ish Ubuntu installs (14.04+) and upgrades Debian testing(stretch, currently) to unstable(sid).

The included site.yml automatically only installs desktop packages when a GUI is present. Customization is straightforward with well(hopefully) separated roles.

Quick Install

curl http://dschep.github.io/box/install | bash -x

wget -qO- http://dschep.github.io/box/install | bash -x

Advanced Quick Install (using git & checking out a specific branch)

curl http://dschep.github.io/box/install | bash -x -s -- --git-https branch-name

Ways of running (after quick install or cloning)

You can obviously use a global inventory file, but often that's not convenient so it's easier to use -i hostname,. It's best to use the real hostname instead of localhost because like that the paybook can easily use that name to decide what to install.

Manual install of deps

Linux

sudo apt install python-pip python-dev libssl-dev ansible

macOS

# manually run `git` to trigger xcode cli tool installation
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install ansible
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Quick install

This is what the quick install runs.

ansible-playbook -i $HOSTNAME, site.yml

Install Secrets

This installs any secrets that are encrypted with ansible-vault

ansible-playbook -i $HOSTNAME, --ask-vault-pass secrets.yml

Vagrant

A Vagrantfile is included that properly overrides a few options for easily setting up a development VM. This is useful for making crappy OSes(Windows/MacOS) usable. It includes a private hostonly interface for easy network connectivity. It has the IP 10.42.42.42 which is nice and easy to remember, It just requires setting up a host-only NIC in VBox in that subnet.

TODO

office
multimedia (creation, gimp, inkscape, etc)
multimedia (consume, mplayer, etc)
netstuff (tsocks, rdesktop)

dschep/box