Playbook setting up 18.04/19.04 with i3 and more from minimal installation

• Requirements
  • Ubuntu 18.04/19.04
  • Other DEB based Linux distros might work, but has not been tested
  • sshd
  • Maybe you need to run this command on the remote machine: ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python
  • Your ssh public key added to root on the remote machine

Thanks to:

• Hypebeast - Inspiration
• Luke Smith XYZ - ST
• Atrus7 - i3lock
• Schischi - xcwd
• Tobi-wan-kenobi - bumblebee-status
• Gabrielelana - awesome-terminal-fonts

Playbook roles: (Listed in install order)

• init
• dm
• i3
• i3lock
• themes
• utilities
• clusterssh
• google-chrome
• slack-desktop
• nvidia-driver
• docker-ce
• power-management
• grub
• cleanup

init

• Requirements
  • Ubuntu 18.04/19.04
  • Other DEB based Linux distros might work, but has not been tested
• Tasks
  • Creating user
  • Deploing ssh keys
  • Install som required packages
  • Clone and compile ST (Simple Terminal) from Luke Smith if terminal is set to st in var/default.yaml
  • Detect if VM and installing guest tools

dm

• Requirements
  • Ubuntu 18.04/19.04
  • Other DEB based Linux distros might work, but has not been tested
• Tasks
  • Install lightdm package

i3

• Requirements

• Tasks

  • Install i3 package and other required packages (See vars/default.yaml)
  • Create .i3 config dir
  • Deploing i3 config

i3lock

• Requirements
  • i3 role, or i3 config with #lock screen tag
  • init role
• Tasks
  • Installing required packages for i3lock
  • Clone and compile i3lock from Atrus7
  • Deploing scripts
  • Adding behavioer to i3 config
  • Deploing emojis if src_i3lock_emoji_dir is set to a path on local machine. Not target machine Else it will use emojis from Atrus7 repo

themes

• Requirements
  • i3 role, or i3 config with #bar tag
  • init role
• Tasks
  • Installing required packages
  • Deploing configs, scripts, fonts and backgrounds
  • Clone and installing awesome-terminal-fonts from my own fork on github
  • Clone bumblebee-status from my own fork on github
  • Adding bumblebee-status bar to i3 config
  • if Ubuntu 18.04: Clone and compile xcwd from Schischi
  • if Ubuntu 19.04: Install xcwd package

utilities

• Requirements
  • Ubuntu 18.04/19.04
  • Other DEB based Linux distros might work, but has not been tested
• Tasks
  • Installing required packages
  • Installing network packages
  • Installing Python libraries
  • Deploy .vimrc

clusterssh

• Requirements
  • i3 role, or i3 config with #clusterssh tag
• Tasks
  • Installing clusterssh
  • Deploing cluster config
  • Adding behavioer to i3 config

google-chrome

• Requirements
  • X11
• Tasks
  • Adding google apt source
  • installing google-chrome-stable package

slack-desktop

• Requirements
  • X11
• Tasks
  • Adding slack apt source
  • installing slack-desktop package

nvidia-driver

• Requirements
  • Nvidia grafic card
• Tasks
  • Looking for Nvidia VGA, if not found. It will do noghing
  • Adding driver apt repository
  • Installing nvidia headless driver v. 418

docker-ce

• Requirements
  • Ubuntu 18.04/19.04
  • Other DEB based Linux distros might work, but has not been tested
• Tasks
  • Adding Docker apt source
  • Installing docker-ce and required packages
  • Adding user to docker group

power-management

• Requirements
  • Ubuntu 18.04/19.04
  • Other DEB based Linux distros might work, but has not been tested
• Tasks
  • Installing some packages for power management. Might only be usefull for laptops

grub

• Requirements
  • grub bootloader
• Tasks
  • Removing quiet and splash screen on boot

cleanup

• Requirements
  • Ubuntu 18.04/19.04
  • Other DEB based Linux distros might work, but has not been tested
• Tasks
  • Removing thunderbird packages
  • Removing modemmanager packages
  • Removing postfix packages
  • Removing gnome packages
  • Removing packages with not requirements
  • Cleaning apt cache
  • Making sure libvirt-qemu user will not show up in login screen