Personal linux box setup

WORK IN PROGRESS

This repo is my personal linux box as a ansible playbook. It assumes some distro that uses apt (Ubuntu, Mint, Elementary).

If you do not have an ansible installation, run

./bin/get-ansible.sh

to install ansible and dependencies. After that, look into laptop.yaml and uncommont (append # to line beginning) all modules you do not want to install. Then run

    ./bin/bootstrap.sh

to run the playbook.

Modules

There are multiple roles which can be used. Each role installs a certain group of software (e.g. some programming language and packages or groups like security or development tools).

The following roles are available:

• [UNTESTED] common: Installs base tools (git, curl, tree, ...) and serves as a collection of tools that do not belong to a specific group. All new tools go here first.
• [TESTED] docker: Installs docker and docker-compose
• [TESTED] security: Installs Keepass2 and pass
• [TESTED] nodejs: Installs nodejs (currently version 7)
• [UNTESTED] golang: Installs golang (currently version 1.8)
• [UNTESTED] python: Installs python3, virtualenv, pyenv and several data science libraries globally (numpy, scipy, pandas etc)
• [TESTED] java8: Installs Oracle Java8 and Maven
• [TESTED] tex: Installs TeXLive and Latexmk + configuration

Note The common module will likely be marked UNTESTED for ever since it contains new tools that have not been verified to be installed correctly. Possibly I will create a staging role that contains these new tools.

Tools

• To create a new role, the script bin/add-role can be used like this: ./bin/add-role.sh <role_name>. This creates the appropriate directories if the role does not already exist
• Linting is available via ansible-lint (pip install ansible-lint). Use make lint to get tips for improvement

Testing with Docker

Assuming you have a working docker installation, you can test your setup with make docker-install or make docker-check (calls ansible with --check flag).