Windows subsystem for Linux development setup

sudo salt-call --local --file-root=/mnt/c/vagrant/github/clearasmudd/wsl-provision/states/ state.highstate

This repository contains code that provisions a bare bone WLS installation with tools listed below:

• Clang
• Cython
• Docker (in client mode)
• git
• golang
• heroku cli
• oracle java8
• node
• python
• rust
• vim + ultimate-vim setup
• zsh + oh-my-zsh

On top of that various customaizations are done to:

• Start an ssh agent & load keys from ~/.ssh on startup
• Fix shell syntax higlighting.

Before you start

Download & install a decent shell application:

• https://hyper.is/
• https://github.com/goreliu/wsl-terminal

Download & install docker for Windows. Linux version will connect to it through DOCKCER_HOST.

If you want a nice font please try Hack.

Provisioning

Scripts in this repositroy depend on SaltStack. Please install it by executing the command below:

wget -qO- https://bootstrap.saltstack.com | sudo sh -s -- -P -d git develop

Fill out templating info:

cp states/vars.template states/vars
vim states/vars

Once done, run saltstack:

sudo salt-call --local --file-root=./states state.highstate

Please wait for the scipts to do their work. This should take around 5 mins.

Profit!