This repository contains an Ansible playbook for setting up a development environment on a new machine. It installs and configures various tools and dotfiles.
This is an Ansible project used to configure and maintain ubuntu based development VM, install software, manage dotfiles, manage the configuration and more.
- Ansible 2.9+
- A Unix-based operating system (e.g. Linux, macOS)
Using Terraform Development Box companion project
Clone and Setup Development VM Terraform Repo. Follow the instructions to run the project. It would automatically use this project to create and configure a ubuntu vm on a proxmox host.
- Set up machine with basic installation of Ubuntu Server.
- SSH server is required if you plan to complete the installation remotely.
- Move to non-default TTY or SSH into the machine remotely.
- Install Ansible and other dependencies
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip git - Install Ansible
sudo pip3 install ansible - Clone this repository to
git clone https://github.com/prashantsolanki3/dots.git ~/dots - Change directory:
cd ~/dots - Review the contents of the
dev.ymlfile to see what tasks will be performed during the provisioning process. You can also add your own tasks and files by creating a new directory and adding them to the tasks and files directories, respectively.
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Run Ansible in check mode
ansible-playbook -i hosts --extra-vars "@env.yml" pluto.yml -C -
Run Ansible against the hosts defined in the
hostsfile.ansible-playbook -i hosts --extra-vars "@env.yml" pluto.ymlNote: Root privileges required to install system packages and other configuration. Ansible will ask you for your password to become root user. This is required because Ansible automates package installation, changes settings only accessible to root etc.
Once the playbooks are applied, you might need to reboot.