My tools and configs

Automated installation of tools and dotfiles I use on some/all machines I have access to.

This is work-in-progress

Basic ideas:

use Ansible to distribute and install tools and dotfiles.
- this gives me the ability to use tailored configuration templates and painlessly install missing tools, all idempotently.
- it also makes it really easy to update config "everywhere".
use git to make everything available everywhere, and to be able to edit everything everywhere.
- code and templates are stored safely and versioned in a publicly hosted repository.
- wherever Ansible distributes and installs stuff, the repository is available and ready for working on it.
have a few helper scripts to make common tasks (such as "render me this dotfile template locally on this machine right now") simple and fast.

Installed and configured things so far

zsh (oh-my-zsh with my customizations)
tmux

Next up

vim with vundle and plugins
ssh config
git with config
other tools: httpie, ipython, pip, virtualenv, ansible, ...

Installation

Recursively clone this repository into ~/lt_tools on your 'main machine' (or the one you'll use to distribute your configs from for the first time).

~$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/lars-tiede/lt_tools.git

On machines that you want to run ansible playbooks on, you need Ansible. Install it in a local Python 2.7 virtualenv like so:

$ virtualenv -p python2.7 py-env
$ ./py-env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

If you're not me, you will want to change the inventory or make your own.

Prerequisites on target machines

Passwordless ssh as lt_user (see inventory) and root, from the 'control machine' (the one you run playbooks on).

On Macs: brew.

(Getting rid of as many prerequisites as possible is on the TODO list)

Run

For now, just run playbooks directly. From within lt_tools:

ansible-playbook -l ANSIBLE_HOST_PATTERN playbooks/PLAYBOOK

Substitute ANSIBLE_HOST_PATTERN with a pattern matching one or many hosts in inventory/default. Don't forget this.

Substitute PLAYBOOK with the playbook file you want to run.

Tricks and often used things

Run playbook on localhost (hostname must be in inventory):

ansible-playbook -l `hostname` playbooks/PLAYBOOK

Update zshrc: edit roles/zsh/templates/zshrc.j2, then

ansible-playbook -l PATTERN playbooks/zsh.yml

License

MIT