A collection of Ansible playbooks to automate common tasks on my development machines. These are used on MacOS (Big Sur), Ubuntu, and Ubuntu via WSL.

You probably don't want to use this directly because it's highly specific to my current workflow. The best way to use these would be to fork and modify or to scan and steal the bits you need.

• Syncing dotfiles
• MacOS settings configuration
• Creating SSH key and linking it to GitHub
• Installing binaries, pulling source code repos, and placing configuration files
• Install VS Code and VS Code extensions

sudo apt-get install unzip ansible # Installs requirements
ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yaml

# Set GH_TOKEN environment variable from secret.
# export GH_TOKEN=XXXXXXXX
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config

# Bootstrap a new machine, probably only need to run once.
ansible-playbook --tags=all,init --ask-become-password devmachine.yaml

The GitHub module requires an authentication token from GitHub with permissions to add/modify ssh keys for the account. You can provide that token by setting the GH_TOKEN environment variable.

Before running, you must create a user.yaml file in the vars/ directory to provide additional values.

# Install collection dependencies.
ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yaml

# Only updates dotfiles.
ansible-playbook --tags=dotfiles-only devmachine.yaml

# Updates packages, repos, and binaries installed through these tasks.
ansible-playbook devmachine.yaml

You can provide a POST-INSTALL.sh script in the root directory of this repo in order to do some additional configuration that will run each time the dotfiles sync.

For example, you could use it to update personal git information.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.signingkey "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX"