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Ansible Ubuntu setup

Ansible roles to setup Ubuntu desktop 18 This playbook is focused on quickly deploying a "ready to use" java developer machine.

Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04

To begin exploring Ansible as a means of managing our various servers, we need to install the Ansible software on at least one machine. We will be using an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS instance for this section.

The best way to get Ansible for Ubuntu is to add the project's PPA (personal package archive) to your system.

To do this effectively, we need to install the software-properties-common package, which will give us the ability to work with PPAs easily. (This package was called python-software-properties on older versions of Ubuntu.)

Installation

  1. Open a unix terminal

  2. In terminal, go to the Ansible project folder. (copy paste the following command) cd Desktop/IEW_Toolchain_Ansible/

  3. Run the 'install.sh' script. (copy paste the following command) ./install.sh

  4. Set your name and email infos

  5. Wait until the end WARNING: The full installation can be 20 minutes long

Then you need to customize the playbook ansible-desktop.yml (or create a new one) to suit your needs. Every roles are disabled by default.

Run ansible-playbook ansible-desktop.yml --ask-become-pass and enter your sudo password to run the playbook

Roles included

Role Description
General
proxy Install a lot of usefull packages (curl, htop, less, zip ... see corresponding task file)
locales Configure system locales and timezone
java Install Default Java JDK
Desktop tools
atom Install Atom from WebUpd8 PPA and Sync Settings plugin
notepad ++ Install notepad++ from WebUpd8 PPA
chromium Install Chromium. May also install plugins and set policies
desktop Install a lot of usefull packages (meld, tilda, vlc, xclip)
desktop-cleanup Remove Unity sh... integrations and install Nautilus plugins
desktop-preferences-unity This one is very personal. Imports all my Unity preferences
bspwm
bspwm Compile bspwm binary tree tiling window manager from source.
bspwm-environment Install various packages to create a desktop environment
bspwm-panel Compile lemonbar, xdo, xtitle, etc from source to handle a panel
sxhkd Compile sxhkd keyboard events daemon from source.
Dev tools
composer Install Composer, PHP Dependency Manager
angular-cli Install angular-cli as a global package
Services & server tools
docker Install Docker and Docker compose from Docker deb repository
nodejs Install NodeJS from Node deb repository
python Install Python
redis Install Redis
Others
dotfiles Clone my personal dotfiles Git repository and their dependencies
projects-installer Clone my repository projects-installer, used to deploy my personal and clients projects (Ansible based)

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2018 by Paulo Lopes, author of Ansible for DevOps.