UBUNTU-DEV - Ansible configured environment for writing and programming

This is an ansible playbook to configure my working environment.

1. Create a VirtualBox Machine

• Install Ubuntu (e.g. 18.04)
• Install VirtualBox Guest Additions
  • Make sure to read the message and check that the additions have been built. You may have to install gcc make and perl first.

2. Create or mount work Folder

ubuntu-dev expects the projects in/home/<user>/work. You can create the work folder locally, but i recommend using an external folder, because that makes it easier and faster to recreate your work in fresh box, in case you screw it up in some way or other. For myself i use an SD-Card wich i configure to be mounted to /home/<user>/work. (Hint: If your host is Windows 10, you should disable "USB Settings -> stop devices when my screen is off ...", to avoid losing the mounted device in the quest.)

3. Clone ubuntu-dev to work

Unless, of cource, it is there already, because you are reusing the work folder as described above.

Apply UBUNTU-DEV

On the quest, navigate to the project folder:

cd work/ubuntu-dev

Just copy the template and adjust it for your environment:

cp sample-ubuntu-dev-vars.yml ~/.ubuntu-dev-vars.yml

Probably you should replace my SSH public key with yours. Well ... unless you want met to visit your machine. And then ... TADAAAA ... you can run the playbook:

./run-ansible.sh

WARNING: This may take a while. Actually some hours, because it includes an installation of TexLive. You may want to exlude that when running this for the first time:

./run-ansible.sh --skip-tags heavy

You can rerun the playbook any time.

Using Tags

./run-ansible.sh --list-tags --list-tasks

I have assigned some tags to enable selective execution of tasks.

• install - everything
• heavy - things that may take long, e.g. installing TexLive.
• configure - configuring the environment

If everything is installed and you want to try some configuration changes, just run:

./run-ansible.sh --tags configure

Links

• Some more things
• Directory layout: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_best_practices.html
• Add Code to .bashrc: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/blockinfile_module.html
• Sudoing: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/become.html
• Permissons, VirtualBox, Ubuntu, Mac Os: http://askubuntu.com/questions/123025/what-is-the-correct-way-to-share-directories-in-mac-and-ubuntu-with-correct-perm

Copyright

Copyright 2016 Bjørn Stachmann

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