Sysprep Fedora Desktop

Ansible playbook for preparing Fedora desktop system with Gnome DE.

Pre-install

Remote host:

1. Install Fedora.
2. Create user and update user in ansible/group_vars/all.yml and remote_user in ansible/ansible.cfg.
3. Start sshd service sudo systemctl start sshd
4. Make sure automatic suspend is disabled.

Local host:

1. Install requirements ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
2. Add remote host ip or hostname to inventory file.
3. Update sysprep.yaml playbook host if needed.
4. Configure ssh access ssh-copy-id user@hostname.
5. For prod add ssh key to remote host ~/.ssh directory.

Install

cd ansible
ansible-playbook playbooks/sysprep.yml

Ansible playbook will:

• Add/remove RPM repositories
• Install/remove RPM packages
• Install flatpak applications
• Add python modules
• Add sudo rules
• Create symbolic links
• Enable/disable services
• Configure DNS (use dnsmasq instead of systemd-networkd)
• Create cron jobs
• Sync git repositories
• Deploy dotfiles
• Install fonts
• Install Gnome extensions
• Install prometheus node exporter

Post-install

1. Restore Fedora/Gnome settings from file. This is a manual step as it requires gnome session to be present.

dconf load -f / < backup/fedora_settings.conf

2. Install themes.
3. Enable firefox, google-drive, vscode, gphotos sync.
4. Configure Timeshift backups.

Issue with extensions

Some extensions shows missing file error after installation. To resolve this remove extension using Extensions Manager and install it again manually.

System Backup

backup.sh script gathers lists of:

• configured repositories
• installed applications and flatpaks
• present python modules
• gnome extensions
• fedora configuration
• user crontab

These lists are saved to backup directory.

Dot files specified in DOTFILES variable are backed up to dotfiles directory. Changes are commited and pushed to this repository.

./backup.sh