dotfiles

Introduction

This repo serves as a personal project and as inspiration for others.

Please don't blindly execute code.

Docker

You can use Docker to ~~blindly execute code~~ rapidly draft Ansible config.

Testing can be as simple as:

docker build . -t dotfiles && docker run -it dotfiles

Ansible

Enable/disable roles in group_vars/all.yml

Customize automation in the roles/ folder. Take the go folder for example. In ./roles/go/tasks/ there is main.yml which will always run if present in all.yml, and suse.yml which will run only on distros in the Suse family.

Ansible Vault

Ansible Vault can be used to encrypt values in public repos. This requires a strong vault.secret. I'm choosing to place mine at ~/.config/ansible-vault/vault.secret.

mkdir ~/.config/ansible-vault
vim ~/.config/ansible-vault/vault.secret
chmod 600 ~/.config/ansible-vault/vault.secret

To then encrypt values with your vault password use the following:

ansible-vault encrypt_string --vault-password-file $HOME/.config/ansible-vault/vault.secret "mynewsecret" --name "MY_SECRET_VAR"

cat myfile.conf | ansible-vault encrypt_string --vault-password-file $HOME/.config/ansible-vault/vault.secret --stdin-name "myfile"

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