Ansible Dev Environment

This works actually for Ubuntu Linux.
On actual hardware it takes from zero OS to fully ready to work environment in less than 45 minutes, on an old laptop from 2014 in less than 1,5 hours.

To see what I do before I run this playbook, read my whole installation process.

Personally I don't think it works for you completely without customizing it by yourself.
I have tried to copy some playbooks for my system, but not one of them was running flawlessly.

But you will have a base with this, from where you can start to learn and build your own playbooks.
My playbooks (I think so) are not perfect. That's fine for me because that is my first work with Ansible and I just want to get done installing my dev environment. If you'd like to refactor or do a session with me, feel free ;)

This repo has a MIT license, so feel free to do everything what you want with it - use it for your own, in your company, copy, share....

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Testing

Requirements:

• Debian based Linux environment (Debian, Ubuntu, PopOS etc.) in Docker or on your machine
• Docker has to be installed on your machine

For testing a Dockerfile is included. If you like, you can change my user specific data to yours.
Keep in mind, that the SSH-keys will not work for you. You have to set up your own.

In set-up-environment.yml, - include_tasks: tasks/google-chrome.yml will not work if your machine is a Mac, because of the ARM architecture.
- include_tasks: tasks/docker.yml will not work too, because you cannot install Docker inside of Docker ;)

As you have set up your stuff, try it in Docker. With this you can fail, learn, throw the container away and create a new one.

Non-Interactive Container Usage

Clone repo into your home directory:

git clone https://github.com/MannyFay/ansible.git

Jump into the ~/ansible directory:

cd ~/ansible

Create your own SSH files and definetly encrypt them with Ansible Vault because they are not ignored by Git:

ansible-vault encrypt <your-file>

Create the file passwd.txt and save your Ansible Vault password inside (this file is ignored by Git, but if you finished testing, you should delete it):

vi passwd.txt

If you don't have installed Ansible already, you can do it with:

chmod +x install-ansible-deb.sh

Run the script:

./install-ansible-deb.sh

Create the Docker image:

docker build .

Test the playbooks:

docker run <press-tab-and-select-the-image-with-<none>-as-name>

Watch the process.

Interactive Container Usage

If you want to jump into the container and run it by hand... Build the image:

docker build .

Jump into:

docker run -it <image-id> /bin/bash

Run the playbooks:

ansible-playbook $TAGS set-up-environment.yml --vault-password-file ./passwd.txt

If you use a login password for OS:

ansible-playbook $TAGS set-up-environment.yml --vault-password-file ./passwd.txt --ask-become-pass

For further testing, I have set up an Ubuntu virtual machine (VM). There I can test against a real environment. Just clone your clean installed VM and run the playbooks in the clone. By this, you have the same 'throw away after testing' environment like with Docker.

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Virtual Machine and Live System

Starting by a clean Debian based installation, install updates shown in GUI and reboot the system.

Install Git:

sudo apt install git

Clone repo into your home directory:

git clone https://github.com/MannyFay/ansible.git

Jump into the ~/ansible directory:

cd ~/ansible

Create the file passwd.txt and save your Ansible Vault password inside:

vi passwd.txt

Make the install-ansible-deb.sh script executable:

chmod +x install-ansible-deb.sh

Run the script:

./install-ansible-deb.sh

Run the playbooks:

ansible-playbook $TAGS set-up-environment.yml --vault-password-file ./passwd.txt --ask-become-pass

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Post Installation Processes

In my case are actually some post installation processes necessary.

Install Rust (enable # Source Rust after installation in .zshrc):

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Install Alacritty:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aslatter/ppa -y
sudo apt install alacritty

Install Polypane:

https://github.com/firstversionist/polypane/releases/download/v17.1.0/polypane_17.1.0_amd64.deb

Install NordPass:

sudo snap install nordpass
sudo snap connect nordpass:password-manager-service

If there is something is wrong with ownerships:

sudo chown -R owner:group directory

VMware

Boost performance even more: Open Command Prompt as administrator:

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
# To set it on again if needed:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

Disable memory integritty (in GUI): Windows Security > Device Security > Core Isolation details
Power Shell:

powercfg /powerthrottling disable /path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmware.exe'

Reboot machine.

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Thanks :)

For contribution:

• Dani Holzer