Ansible Development Environment Setup

This repository contains Ansible playbooks and roles to set up a development environment on a new Ubuntu-based system or container.

Overview

This Ansible setup includes the following main components:

1. Core system setup
2. Git configuration
3. Dotfiles management
4. Development tools installation

Prerequisites

• Ubuntu-based system (tested on Ubuntu 20.04 and later)
• Ansible installed on the target system

Usage

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/ansible-dev-setup.git
   cd ansible-dev-setup
   

2. Update the vars/sensitive directory with your personal information:

   • Copy git_config.yml.example to git_config.yml and update with your Git information
   • Copy ssh_keys.yml.example to ssh_keys.yml and add your SSH keys
   • Set your dotfiles repository URL in git_config.yml

3. Run the Ansible playbook:

   ansible-playbook local.yml --ask-become-pass
   

Components

Core Setup

• Installs essential packages and tools
• Sets up Zsh as the default shell
• Configures SSH

Git Setup

• Configures Git with your personal information
• Sets up global Git preferences

Dotfiles

• Clones your dotfiles repository (specified in git_config.yml)
• Creates symlinks for your configuration files

Development Tools

• Go
• Node.js (via NVM)
• Rust
• Docker
• Visual Studio Code
• Python (with virtual environment)

Python Virtual Environment

This setup includes a Python virtual environment. Use the following alias to activate it:

activate_python

Customization

You can customize the setup by modifying the roles and tasks in the roles and tasks directories. The dotfiles repository URL can be changed in vars/sensitive/git_config.yml.

Testing

To test the setup in a Docker container:

1. Build the test Docker container:

   sh build-docker
   

2. Run the Docker container:

   docker run --rm -it nvim-computer bash
   

3. Inside the container, run the Ansible playbook:

   ansible-playbook local.yml --ask-become-pass
   

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues or pull requests if you have suggestions for improvements or encounter any problems.

License

MIT License