ansible-arch-setup

Intro

This ansible role is being used for installing Arch Linux on a new computer. Please make sure, that you understand the underlaying roles and what they do before following my quickstart guide you can find within the fitting playbook. I am NOT responsible to anything that might happen by executing my ansible roles. As we are installing a new operating system, ansible-arch-setup is formatting your drive before the install. This leads into dataloss. Don't forget to correctly backup your device!

To do

• encrypted root partition
• swap partition for hibernate
• migrate non essential parts of the install into ansible-arch
• dual boot with windows
• driver installation triggered via ansible facts (?)

Role information

• has to be executed while running from the Arch install media
• repartitions the drive
• creates bootloader partition
• creates /root partition
• creates filesystems
• mounts filesystems
• ranks arch mirrors
• runs pacstrap
• installs drivers
• generates fstab
• sets up local timezone
• generates locales
• sets hostname
• creates new initramfs
• sets up grub
• creates user including ssh key
• creates keyboard language files
• installs xorg
• installs kde plasma
• gives passwordless sudo access to wheel group
• reboots

Role Variables:

To be set in group_vars OR host_vars of your playbook

Variable	Description	Default
user_name	name of the user being created	nik
user_password	hashed pw of the user being created	<empty>
hostname	hostname that should be set	arch-workstation
install_drive	path of the drive being used	/dev/sda
bios_partition_suffix	only relevant when changing the whole task by yourself	1
boot_partition_suffix	efi partion has the partion number 1	1
root_partition_suffix	root partion has the partion number 2	2
bios	set to true when you want a bios install -> conflicts with efi	false
efi	set to true when you want a efi install -> conflicts with bios	false
intel	set to true when you want to install intel-ucode & mesa	false
amd	set to true when you want to install amd-ucode	false
vmware	set to true when installing within a vm	false
nvidia: 1	set to true when you want to install nvidia & nvidia-settings	false
bluetooth: 1	set to true when you want to configure bluetooth	false
sshd: 1	set to true when you want a running sshd server	false
xorg	set to true when you want to install xorg packages	false
plasma	set to true when you want to install plasma & boot into it	false

playbook

This role is used by my ansible-arch-install playbook. I would suggest, using it as a starting point!

Requirements

Any pre-requisites that may not be covered by Ansible itself or the role should be mentioned here. For instance, if the role uses the EC2 module, it may be a good idea to mention in this section that the boto package is required.

Role Variables

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Dependencies

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Example Playbook

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- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: username.rolename, x: 42 }

License

BSD

Author Information

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