Ansible for desktop

A simple and quick way to provision your development machine.

Tested with:

• Ansible 2.6
• Ubuntu 19.04

Features

• Zsh, NeoVIM, Tmux
• Chrome, Firefox
• PGP, Tor, Password Manager
• NTP and localization
• Ruby, Java, Clojure
• Redis, ES, MySQL
• Vritualbox, Vagrant
• Dropbox
• Rocketchat, Skype, Slack
• i3 Window Manager
• Yunikey support
• Dotfiles
• Coding fonts
• and more...

Installation

sudo apt-get install git ansible
git clone git@github.com:krisleech/ansible-desktop.git
cd ansible-desktop

Checkout the Getting Started guide for an overview and examples of the recipies used.

Configure

Edit vars.yml and change the user var:

user: kris

Usage

Install everything:

ansible-playbook -K -v setup.yml

Install certain tags:

ansible-playbook -K --tags zsh setup.yml

-K will prompt for your root/sudo password, if required.

Notes

There are several sessions which can be selected from the Greeter (login screen) including Gnome (Ubuntu default) and i3.

Vagrant/VirtualBox

vagrant up --provision

Inspirations

• https://github.com/kalos/ansible-desktop
• https://github.com/chaosmail/dev-env