An ansible playbook for the first time setup of development machines.
This is an ansible playbook that I use to speed up the setup of any new computer with Linux (preferably an Ubuntu flavor) to be used for development. The idea is to get a few requirements for this playbook installed, then run this to automate the installation of some apps and overall setup of the device.
There are a few steps to be taken before this script can be ran.
- Install git
Install git using your favorite method. I usually use the apt repos which tend to be a bit outdated but does the trick. Make sure your version is higher than 2.20. Git will be required in the first step of the big bang to clone the dotfiles.
sudo apt install git-all
- Install pip (and some other python stuff)
Assuming you are on a new enough distribution, everything python related will be using python3. Same goes for pip (i.e pip3). A nifty way of getting the latest version is:
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
python get-pip.py --user
If you're on Ubuntu 20.04, you probably need these too:
sudo apt-get install python3-distutils
sudo apt-get install python3-apt
- Install ansible
As it is the main tool required to run the playbook, install ansible.
pip3 install --user ansible
Big bang playbook is used in two steps with the run script. After first step it is important to either source all the changed environment variables and startup scripts again or simply start a new shell instance and toss the old one. To indicate which step you want, pass the number 1 or 2 to run script.
./run 1- Wait for ansible to do it's thing, everything is logged in big_bang.log as well in case something goes wrong.
- Start a new shell process, same directory.
./run 2- Wait some more.
- Profit.
MIT, see LICENSE file for deets.