Devsible

I've got anxiety about computers. I loathe the moment that I have to reinstall my computer from scratch when moving companies, when performing disaster recovery. It's not about forgetting to install Emacs, or about forgetting to copy my specialized config file into it's rightful place.

It's about forgetting that in order to use emacs, I need to do things in a special order. I need to run commands in certain orders.
It's about forgetting to reload the systemd service after I added my configuration file

And so much more.

Why?

So this project has gone through a few different iterations over the past ten years:

• https://github.com/kallekrantz/puppet-personal
• https://github.com/kallekrantz/boxen

Being just two of the ones. They were pretty good for what I knew at the time, and while I could probably have written devsible using puppet, I thought it was time to try something new.

Enter: Ansible!

This project contains a very plain playbook, targetting the local host to run it's set of plays. It's extremely opinionated, and I would not recommend running it unless you've verified that my views on how a computer should behave matches yours.

Get Started

First up, verify that you have git and ansible installed. That's how we start the process.

mkdir -p Code/Own/devsible
git clone https://github.com/kallekrantz/devsible Code/Own/devsible
cd Code/Own/devsible
bash bootstrap.bash

Now your system is prepared to run the playbook, so fire it away:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/work.ini playbook.yml

This will take a long time, and while I try to keep it fairly stable in terms of being able to run it on both Ubuntu/Arch, I make no guarantees to the current state of it at a single point in time.

Roadmap

• Being able to run multiple plays simultaneously (dynamic runtime playbook generation)
• Automatic CI runs on supported operating systems
• Ansible linter (Blocked by ansible-lint misbehaving on currently released versions, master version should be fine though)
• System cron/Systemd service for easily being able to query if a run "Should" happen
• Better management of the dotfiles repository, it's strictly dumb to have to write --ignore-changes constantly.