Arch ansible managed

Yet another one Arch installation with ansible.

No magic, only basic tasks to help you install, bootstrap and setup your new Arch system.
You need to be familiar with Arch manual installation and ansible usage to get through.

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TL;DR:

• Installation: LVM, LUKS, XFS, Plymouth, separated disk drives for system & data
• Bootstrap: Pacman and AUR packages
• Profile: XFCE, Syncthing, Dotdrop, LightDM

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Speedrun:

0. Installation will wipe your drive and cleanup all data
1. Boot from archiso installation media and set password to 12345
2. Setup network connection
3. Update inventories/hosts.yml with your device IP
4. Run ansible with:

ansible-playbook playbook.yml \
  -e 'arch_install_user_name=user' \
  -e 'arch_install_user_password=password' \
  -e 'arch_install_system_drive=/dev/nvme0n1' \
  -e 'arch_install_luks_passphrase=passphrase'

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Options:

You can use examples inventory hosts to experiment with.

user-laptop - used with defaults roles variables and got minimal installation type.
user-desktop - used with custom roles variables, set in inventories/host_vars/user-desktop.yml

Playbook can be used with tags to run phases independently:

ansible-playbook playbook.yml --tags=install

Please inspect roles defaults/main.yml variables.

Important variables which I felt necessary to explain:

Phase	Variable	Value	Description
Install	arch_install_luks_passphrase	PASSPHRASE	unset to disable LUKS (default)
Install	arch_install_luks_auto_unlock	false	encrypt drive but auto unlock on boot (disabled by default)
Install	arch_install_data_drive	/dev/nvme1n1	set to map, encrypt and mount your second data drive
Install	arch_install_pacstrap_packages	[ list of packages ]	update with your custom pacstrap packages
Install	arch_install_aur_packages	[ list of packages ]	update with your custom aur packages
Install	arch_install_mkinitcpio	[ list of options ]	review role default variables to setup mkinitcpio options
Bootstrap	arch_bootstrap_pacman_packages	[ list of packages ]	update with your custom pacman packages
Bootstrap	arch_bootstrap_yay_packages	[ list of packages ]	update with your custom yay packages
Profile	arch_profile_dotdrop	[ list of options ]	Dotdrop options for dotfiles syncing
Profile	arch_profile_syncthing_config	[ list of options ]	Syncthing options for folders sycning
Profile	arch_profile_xfce_config	[ list of options ]	Lots of options to customize XFCE

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Lyric:

Yes, this is just another attempt to fix the process of installing and configuring your own system.
The described methods do not cover all configuration scenarios, but they are enough for my needs.
Maybe someone will find them useful, or at least witty.