Playbook for installing various (mostly developer) tools into ChromeOS Linux environment

Last tested on ChromeOS & ChromeOS Flex (105.0.5195.112), Linux Development Environment (Crostini), based on Debian bullseye.

What is included

• Docker
• Google Cloud (gcloud) CLI
• Obsidian
• SSH Agent
• Tailscale
• Terraform
• Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio Code Extensions:
  • Cloud Code
  • Docker
  • GitHub Pull Requests and Issues
  • HashiCorp Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Remote - Containers
  • YAML
• Extra Packages:
  • bind9-dnsutils
  • ipcalc
  • jq
  • netcat-openbsd
  • opensc
  • python3-venv
  • traceroute

Requirements

Installing ansible:

sudo apt install ansible -y

Cloning this repo:

git clone https://github.com/drebes/chromeos-ansible-playbooks.git

Running the playbook:

cd chromeos-ansible-playbooks && ansible-playbook install.yaml

Customizing

If you'd like to customize the list of packages that get installed, edit install.yaml and remove/modify/comment out the corresponding roles.

Optional Setup

git user setup

You can configure your default (global) git commit identity (user name and email) by uncommenting the git_config variables in the file group_vars/all and setting it to your appropriate value.

Extra packages

You can configure the list of extra packages that get installed by modifying the the packages variable under extra_packages in the file group_vars/all and setting it to the list of packages you'd like to have.

Visual Studio Code extensions

You can configure the list of Visual Studio Code extensions that get installed by modifying the the extensions variable under vscode in the file group_vars/all and setting it to the list of extensions you'd like to have.

Connect to Tailscale

You can automatically connect the Linux Development Environment to your Tailscale network by defining the TAILSCALE_AUTHKEY environment variable with the contents of your auth key before running this playbook.