Supported platforms

I have tested these scripts on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and CentOS on VMs as well as actual machines.

Tools I install

• zsh and oh-my-zsh
• Essential build & developer tools
• Flatpak & Flathub, and Gnome utils
• PHP
• Docker
• NVM and Nodejs
• OpenVPN3
• AWS CLI

First time setup

Fork and Clone the repo

• git clone https://github.com/nkt217/linux-developer-terminal.git ~/terminal-setup

Setup ssh keys

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_email@example.com"

Note: If you are using a legacy system that doesn't support the Ed25519 algorithm, use:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "your_email@example.com"

When generating the ssh key add the path as ~/terminal-setup/ssh-keys. The reason I do this so whenever I have to set this up on a different system I don't need to re-setup my ssh key on all the platforms where I have already set this up like Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Dev VMs etc.

Make changes to terminal-setup/.custom-aliases

This file contains the command aliases I use generally to increase my productivity during work. You can add/remove aliases from the file. I will generally have aliases for common project repos, ssh commands for my dev VMs etc.

Make changes to terminal-setup/.custom-config

This file contains the custom configurations and ENV variables that I might need on my machine which I generally have to setup everytime I use a new machine.

Make changes to terminal-setup/scripts/1.install-shell.sh

This file will install essential utilities, and oh-my-zsh.

Changes that you should make on this file:

1. base_dir - This is added incase you have to do this on a VM with external storage mounted. Don't change this if you want to setup everything in the $HOME(default) directory itself.
2. Make changes to the git global config settings.

Make changes to terminal-setup/scripts/2.install-dev-tools.sh

This file will install developer tools like php, docker, nvm & nodejs, and some essentials softwares from flatpak. You can add/remove tools that you use in your day-to-day work

Make changes to terminal-setup/scripts/3.setup-code.sh

Here you can organize your code structure and clone repositories

Make changes to terminal-setup/devops/docker-compose.yaml

You can configure docker container for tools like jenkins, mariadb, postgres, redis etc.

To start the services just run docker compose up -d To stop the services just run docker compose down

Finalize

Commit the changes and push into your own repository.

On another computer

Once you have setup your scripts, anytime you need to spawn up a new developer environment either on a new VM or a new machine all you need to do is:

1. Clone the repository. Ex: `sudo apt install git -y&& git clone <git-url>/linux-developer-terminal.git  ~/terminal-setup`
2. Run `terminal-setup/scripts/1.install-shell.sh` and follow the instructions and prompts
3. Run `terminal-setup/scripts/2.install-dev-tools.sh` and follow the instructions and prompts
4. Run `terminal-setup/scripts/3.setup-code.sh` 
5. Run `cd terminal-setup/devops && docker compose up -d` to start the developer tools
6. Logout and Login again for things to work smoothly

And, your developer environment will be up within minutes.