This is an ansible playbook to configure my working environment.
- Install Ubuntu (e.g. 18.04)
- Install VirtualBox Guest Additions
- Make sure to read the message and check that the additions have been built. You may have to install gcc make and perl first.
ubuntu-dev
expects the projects in/home/<user>/work
.
You can create the work
folder locally,
but i recommend using an external folder,
because that makes it easier and faster to recreate your work in fresh box,
in case you screw it up in some way or other.
For myself i use an SD-Card wich i configure to be mounted to /home/<user>/work
.
(Hint: If your host is Windows 10, you should disable "USB Settings -> stop devices when my screen is off ...", to avoid losing the mounted device in the quest.)
Unless, of cource, it is there already, because you are reusing the work folder as described above.
On the quest, navigate to the project folder:
cd work/ubuntu-dev
Just copy the template and adjust it for your environment:
cp sample-ubuntu-dev-vars.yml ~/.ubuntu-dev-vars.yml
Probably you should replace my SSH public key with yours. Well ... unless you want met to visit your machine. And then ... TADAAAA ... you can run the playbook:
./run-ansible.sh
WARNING: This may take a while. Actually some hours, because it includes an installation of TexLive. You may want to exlude that when running this for the first time:
./run-ansible.sh --skip-tags heavy
You can rerun the playbook any time.
./run-ansible.sh --list-tags --list-tasks
I have assigned some tags to enable selective execution of tasks.
install
- everythingheavy
- things that may take long, e.g. installing TexLive.configure
- configuring the environment
If everything is installed and you want to try some configuration changes, just run:
./run-ansible.sh --tags configure
- Some more things
- Directory layout: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_best_practices.html
- Add Code to
.bashrc
: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/blockinfile_module.html - Sudoing: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/become.html
- Permissons, VirtualBox, Ubuntu, Mac Os: http://askubuntu.com/questions/123025/what-is-the-correct-way-to-share-directories-in-mac-and-ubuntu-with-correct-perm
Copyright 2016 Bjørn Stachmann
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