ubuntu-installer

Easily install and configure your Ubuntu Desktop installation.

Compatibility Grid

Release	Status	Branch to use
22.04	Unstable	main
22.04	Stable	22.04
20.04	Unmaintained	20.04
18.04	Unmaintained	18.04
16.04	Unmaintained	16.04

Requirements

In order to run the the following installation process and script you need to have :

• access to a shell
• unzip
• wget
• Ansible 2.8+ (we handled the installation via the run.sh script)

Installation

wget -O installer.zip https://github.com/jygastaud/ubuntu-installer/archive/<branch>.zip
unzip installer
cd ubuntu-installer-<branch>
cp default.config.yml config.yml

and edit the config.yml file (you can keep only the line you change in that file).

Then

If you have Ansible already installed

./run.sh

If you want to install Ansible first

./run.sh --ansible

Specific component installation

You can use Ansible tag to run only some part of that playbook.

Examples:

• Install only packages

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts --user=$(whoami) -e "my_user=$(whoami)" --ask-become-pass --tag packages

• Install only git

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts --user=$(whoami) -e "my_user=$(whoami)" --ask-become-pass --tag git

• Install all dev-tools

ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts --user=$(whoami) -e "my_user=$(whoami)" --ask-become-pass --tag dev-tools

Notes: Tags are not be available for every tools.

Tools managed and installed by default

Tools marked with ✔ are installed by default. You can override the config.yml file to match your needs.

• ✔ System packages (install with Snap or apt)

  • asciinema - Record terminal sesions
  • ✔ autojump - better cd
  • ✔ Bat - Cat clone
  • ✔ curl
  • ✔ direnv - Easy management of local environment variables
  • expect
  • ✔ htop
  • ✔ httpie - HTTP Client
  • ✔ JQ - Json Processor
  • Mosh - Mobile Shell
  • ✔ NFS
  • ✔ OpenVPN
  • ✔ Parallel
  • ✔ Peco - Interactive filtering tool
  • ✔ Postman
  • Rclone - sync files and directories
  • ruby
  • syncthing
  • ✔ tmux
  • tmuxp
  • traceroute
  • ✔ tree
  • YQ - Yaml Processor
  • ✔ xsel

• Dev tools

  • Code versioning
    • ✔ Git (with official repository)
    • Subversion
  • Cloud tools
    • aws-cli
    • Azure cli
    • google-cloud-sdk
  • Kubernetes
    • faas
    • helm
    • Kontena Lens
    • kubectl
    • microk8s
    • openshift client (oc)
  • Java
  • Databases
    • MySQL Workbench
    • mysql-client
  • Nodejs + npm
  • Virtualisation
    • ✔ Docker (with official repository)
    • ✔ Docker Compose (v2)
    • Docker Compose (v1)
    • footloose
    • multipass
    • Virtualbox
    • Vagrant
  • pipenv
  • gitlabci-local
  • asdf (with asdf you can install many tools such as terraform, terragrunt, dagger etc…)
  • tldr

• Browsers

  • ✔ Chrome (via snap package)
  • Firefox is not installed here as it is include even in minial installation of Ubuntu.

• Shell

  • ✔ Zsh & Oh-My-Zsh

• Editor / IDE

  • Atom (via snap)
  • PHPStorm (via snap)
  • Sublime Text (via snap)
  • VSCode (via snap)

• Others

  • Calibre
  • Claat
  • Chezmoi - dotfiles manager
  • FileZilla
  • InSync - Google Drive Synchro
  • Pet - snippet manager
  • Rambox
  • Spotify
  • ✔ Typora - Markdown Editor
  • Vokoscreen

• Password managers

  • LastPass CLI
  • Bitwarden Desktop
  • Bitwarden CLI
  • Keepassxc

Others options available

config file also allows you to define :

• your oh_my_zsh configurations (theme, plugins)
• your shell aliases
• your git config

Plan

• Add the following tools
  • Barrier
  • Clockify
  • anchore/grype
  • Trivy
  • infrahq
  • openlens
  • remmina (rdp client)
  • apache2-utils
  • asciidoc
  • flatpack
  • shellcheck
  • touchgg https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg
  • neovim
  • Azure functions cli
  • inkscape
  • confluent cloud (ccloud)
  • hugo (without snap)
  • jungledisk / junglediskcli (https://downloads.jungledisk.com/current/junglediskdesktop_amd64.deb)
  • kompose
  • okteto
  • lab
  • protonvpn / protonvpncli (pip)
  • zoom
  • xclip
  • pip
    • diagrams
    • blastraduius
    • ansible-autodoc
  • VLC
  • wireguard
  • xdg-utils
• process
  • activate/configure vscode plugins
  • activate/configure phpstorm plugins
  • find a way to add tags for every tools, so we can install them individually
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