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Provisioning for my working station using Ansible.

Know limitations

• kernel 5.8 + systemd 245 causes issues with checking services states, so ensure not to use kernel hwe-edge on focal.fossa - see this
• some stuff works better as sudo, such as sudo ansible-playbook -v -i inventory.yml desktop.yml
• to see htlm reports without errors in jenkins then see this

Requirements

To run locally:

• vagrant
• linux host with qemu-kvm to spawn virtual machine (virtualbox/windows not tested)
• working vagrant-libvirt

Above can be invoked under Ubuntu 20.04 via:

sudo apt install -y qemu-kvm libvirt vagrant vagrant-libvirt

• access to internet to download dependencies
• run vagrant up
• full run should take about 20 minutes (installing desktop on server)
• run from host scripts/test_in_vagrant.sh to fetch also ara reports
• after run you can exec scripts/ara.sh to see ansible runs results via web if you have ara installed on host
• re-run scripts/test_in_vagrant.sh and hit refresh in ara web

Demo

After starting ara script you are presented with url to localhost:8000 which shows ara web server, example image below.

TODO

• drop Centos

• set timezone to Etc/UTC

• rename roles so that they conform with ansible-linter etc

• ci: linters output to html

• guest: in-shell apt settings (retries)

• guest: ansible task retries for package installs

• guest: dnsmasq

• guest: smartgit

• guest: system reboot if required?

• sudo apt install awscli

curl -o aws-iam-authenticator https://amazon-eks.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1.18.9/2020-11-02/bin/linux/amd64/aws-iam-authenticator

• containers/snaps/tools:

  • authy
  • backintime + config
  • dive
  • gimp
  • kaniko
  • kind
  • p7zip-desktop
  • skopeo
  • xnview

Do not do

Notes to self:

• vagrant storage pools with primary disk are pain, this is vagrant-libvirt limitation
• jenkinsfile dynamic detection of nproc on jenkins worker, you will meet CPS/NonCPS chicken-egg errors

Tips

• get local facts ansible -m setup -i inventory.yml localhost