Developer Environment Bootstrapping

Given that windows does not have a native ansible client, this bootstrap uses WSL Ansible. The bootstrap.ps1 does just enough to get WSL and Ansible installed an configured before handing off management to Ansible.

Get Started

To start, you will need to open a powershell console as Administrator. The bootstrap script writes informational messages using Write-Information, so you will likely want to set $InformationPreference = "Continue". Now you will need run this script:

Invoke-WebRequest `
    -Uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucastheisen/dev-bootstrap/master/bootstrap.ps1 `
    -UseBasicParsing `
    | Invoke-Expression

Configuration

This bootstrap is configured via the ansible vars file: $env:LOCALAPPDATA\dev-bootstrap\config.yml. The configuration is of has a root roles variable that is a dict whose keys are the names of roles to enable. The values are configuration for the role itself.

For example:

---
roles:
  test:
    var1: foo
    var2: bar
  wsl_docker:

Will enable the test and wsl_docker roles, and provide the test role with configuration variables.

The dev-bootstrap Command

After the first run, a dev-bootstrap bash alias is created that provides cli access to bootstrap configuration. Run dev-bootstrap --help for details.

External Repositories

External ansible repositories can be included as long as they can be git clone'd. They are configured under the external.repos key, and are required to provide a uri and an optional ref. Additionally, they must include a roles section that will be combined with the main roles.

For Example:

---
external:
  repos:
  - ref: ansible
    roles:
      dotfiles:
    uri: git@github.com:lucastheisen/dotfiles.git

When external repositories are configured, they will be fetched/updated before being used.

Execution Order

By default, all configured roles have the same weight, so execution order will be arbitrary. When possible, relying or order of exection should be avoided, but in case this is not possible, you can influence order by adding a role_weight key to any roles configuration. This can be any numeric value (decimal included), and will be used to sort roles before applying them. If not specified, role_weight will default to 0.

For Example, if you need a role to run after all other roles, you can (assuming this is the only explicitly weighted role):

---
roles:
  last_role:
    role_weight: 1

Update

As configuration changes, you will need to re-run the bootstrap. The primary approach to updating is to simply use:

dev-bootstrap update

However, you can also:

From powershell

Just re-run the same command as Get Started.

From bash

From a bash shell, run:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lucastheisen/dev-bootstrap/master/bootstrap.sh | bash