.ansible

workstation bootstrapping, rebase this onto a blank kde neon install

• tested with neon 5.27.x on 22.04
• uses newest ansible from PPA instead of distro upstream, so human-readable output via callback works
• default verbosity changed to '-vv' so the FILE:LINE position of the currently run task is shown
• ansible-lint and yamllint are run on every commit, use gc (without a message so no actual commit takes place) after deploy to see wether they find something

bootstrapping

make ssh work, so ansible behaves

sudo bash -c "echo 'sjas ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/sjas"
sudo apt install openssh-server -y
ssh-keygen -trsa -b4096 -N '' -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
ssh-copy-id localhost  ## enter password here when promted
mkdir -p ~/.ssh/controlmasters

setup ansible itself

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common -y
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible -y
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ansible -y
sudo apt install git -y
git config --global user.name sjas
git config --global user.email some@mail.here
ANSIBLETEMPROOT=~/etc
mkdir -p $ANSIBLETEMPROOT
cd $ANSIBLETEMPROOT
git clone https://github.com/sjas/.ansible
cat << EOF > ~/.ansible.cfg
[defaults]
inventory=/home/sjas/etc/.ansible/hosts
#default,oneline,minimal,yaml,debug
#https://rndmh3ro.github.io/
stdout_callback=yaml
bin_ansible_callbacks=yes
verbosity=2
roles_path=/etc/ansible/roles:./
interpreter_python=auto_silent
[ssh_connection]
ssh_args=-o controlmaster=auto -o controlpersist=60s -o controlpath=~/.ssh/controlmasters/%r@%h:%p
pipelining=yes
[diff]
always=yes
context=4
EOF
ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
cd .ansible

run ansible to get the workstation up and running

cd ~/etc/.ansible
ansible-playbook neon.yml

post tasks

# make your new settings known to your current shell
. ~/.bashrc
# logout/login to KDE
# otherwise your GUI changes will not be applied

some useful oneliners for discerning settings' locations

## run in ~/.config
find . -type f -ls | grep .git -v > asdf1; read; find . -type f -ls | grep .git -v > asdf2; diff asdf{1,2} | awk 'NF>1 {print $NF}' | sort -u | awk 'NF>0'| grep -ve 'asdf[12]' | sed -e 's/^\.\///' ; rm asdf{1,2}

strace systemsettings5 |& grep ^stat | grep -v -e ENOENT -e /etc/localtime -e st_mode=S_IFDIR -e /run/user/1000 -e /usr/lib/x86_64- | cut -c7- | sed -e 's/"/ /' | awk '{print $1}'

## first: cd ~/.config; git init; git add .; git commit -m init
watch -n1 -d 'git diff HEAD | grep -e diff -e \+\+\+ -e^\+ | grep --color -e$ -ediff\ \-\-.\* | wc -l; echo; git status'

known issues

/home/sjas is pretty hardcoded everywhere and will not get cleaned up in the foreseeable future