Development env setup

Reasoning:

As I work with Linux on various systems (wsl/on-company-laptop, wsl/on-personal-laptop, homelab/servers, dualbooted/Linux and pottential/future Macbook(s)), I need a fairly swift and consistent way to deploy the tools on all of these in a fairly consistent way.

Note from the repo I forked for this :

Why Ansible? Because re-creating (I was using a simple make file in the previous iteration: https://github.com/andrzejsliwa/wsl2_ubuntu) from scratch the whole state of the environment is time-consuming, I enjoy idempotency provided by ansible - I'm able to revert my atomic changes quickly

Prerequires:

• fix DNS based on this: https://gist.github.com/coltenkrauter/608cfe02319ce60facd76373249b8ca6

  • I would also suggest using in /etc/resolv.conf the company name servers (if company machine) or your prefered DNS servers

• place SSH-specific files to .ssh folder [optional] no need, SSH role will take care of this

• install Ansible ./install_ansible.sh

• install Homebrew ./install_brew.sh

Execute:

As the ./install_brew.sh also installs Task, at this point I suggest to do a task, which defaults to the list of the available tasks, with their short description.

 task
# task: [default] task --list-all
# task: Available tasks for this project:
# * default:
# * init:                       Prepare WSL2 to meet the pre-requisites
# * ansible:apt:                Tasks utilising `apt` package manager
# * ansible:bash:               Configuration of 'bash' and related files
# * ansible:brew:               Tasks using Homebrew
# * ansible:docker:             Tasks configuring `Docker`
# * ansible:dot:                Task to update/create a few configuration files
# * ansible:git:                Tasks configuring `Git` client
# * ansible:list:               List Ansible tags
# * ansible:nix:                Install Nix package manager
# * ansible:python:             Install Python and required packages
# * ansible:sporting:           Configurations specific to Sporting Solutions Company
# * ansible:ssh:                SSH client and server configuration
# * ansible:sys:                Tasks configuring the Linux system in general
# * ansible:wsl:                Tasks configuring `wsl`
# * ansible:zsh:                Install ZSH
# * init:install-ansible:       Install Ansible
# * init:install-brew:          Install Homebrew
# * wsl:home:                   Prepare WSL installation on my personal [Windows] system [skipp Sporting-specific settings]
# * wsl:work:                   Prepare WSL installation on my work [Windows] system

You can than pick an action suitable for your needs

note: this list will likely be different by the time you run this, as I likely will be adding / removing tasks; consider it an example only!

Couple other useful commands:

wsl —shutdown
wsl --unregister Ubuntu-22.04
wsl --install Ubuntu-22.04
notepad "$env:USERPROFILE/.wslconfig"

Future plans

I am also considering turning this to Nix, but I prefer to NOT use NixOS everywhere, and so far just got limited success with using nix, home manager and Flakes on non-Nix systems --> this is planned only. If you want to help/contribute with such, feel free to PR or reach out to discus.