ansible-arch

ansible-arch is an Ansible playbook heavily inspired by spark to provision and recreate from scratch my archlinux workstation environment.

Status

The follow roles are done:

archcore: performs the basic steps on a freshly archlinux install
- hostname setting
- user creation
- timezone, locale and keymapping configuration
- pacman configuration, mirror refresh, reflector install and mirror sort
- basic packages install
- populates home with a directories skel
dotfiles: clones a dotfiles repo by git and install them in the home
x: installs xorg, video driver, window manager and basic gui utilities
tools: installs some core gui tools (browser, editor)
mail: installs neomutt, msmtp, offlineimap, notmuch, lbdb, urlscan
pim: installs pass, vdirsyncer, khal, todoman
audio: installs alsa-utils, mpd, mpc, ncmpc, soundcloud-dl and creates media/audio subdirectories
backup: installs restic, enables scheduled backups and optionally enable backup rsync on a remote host by ssh
ops: installs ansible, ansible-lint, libvirt, wireshark, virt-mananger and puppet-lint
virt: installs docker, qemu, virtualbox and vagrant
dev:
- python: installs ipython2/3, python2/3 virtualenv, python virtualenvwrapper, pelican and flake8
communication: installs weechat, pidgin and purple-skyweb (skype plugin for pidgin)
media: installs mpv, gnome-mpv and creates media/video subdirectories

Plan

To come:

to set communications account

Install

Clone

git clone https://github.com/lgaggini/ansible-arch

Requirements

Ansible
Vagrant (otional, to test on a disposable vm)

Configuration

The configuration of the playbook is done by edit the group_vars/all file, you can mainly edit:

some settings for the archlinux installation customization
dotfiles git repo location
packages list to be installed for the various roles
mail_account (imap and smtp) and cal account
backup remote server for backups rsync

Custom systemd user unit

I have all my user custom systemd units in my dotfiles repo and I get them in the dotfiles role and in the other roles I enable them. They aren't included in the playbook.

Usage

Vagrant playground

cd ansible-arch
vagrant up
ansible-playbook -i vagrant.inventory playbook.yml

Every roles and every steps are tagged, you can perform partially run of playbook using them.

Main available tags are:

core
cli
gui
dotfiles
tools
mail
pim
audio
backup
ops
virt
dev
comm
media

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