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