Automate the install of various tools and environment settings using ansible.
Mainly with the goal of automating myself away and removing the pain of each new ubuntu VM.

Be aware that this is mainly a project for me to learn ansible and to customize my environment. Feel free to borrow stuff from it, but don't expect you'll like my preferences if you run this against your own VM :p

I'd only recommend to use this for your play-around VMs, not for production machines

Install ansible sudo ./install-ansible.sh

Test if your ansible connection to your VM works

ansible-playbook -i localVM -k -K playbooks/test-run.yml --extra-vars "rem_ssh_user=SSH_USERNAME"

Run the entire playbook

ansible-playbook -i localVM -k -K site.yml --extra-vars "rem_ssh_user=SSH_USERNAME"

Run individual playbooks

ansible-playbook -i localVM -k -K pb_user-prefs.yml --extra-vars "rem_ssh_user=SSH_USERNAME"

Edit the file localVM and replace the current line with

localhost ansible_connection=local

Test if your local ansible connection works

ansible-playbook -i localVM -K playbooks/test-run.yml --extra-vars "rem_ssh_user=LOCAL_USERNAME"

Run the entire playbook

ansible-playbook -i localVM -K site.yml --extra-vars "rem_ssh_user=LOCAL_USERNAME"

Run individual playbooks

ansible-playbook -i localVM -k -K pb_user-prefs.yml --extra-vars "rem_ssh_user=LOCAL_USERNAME"

• Configure base firewall
• Configure launcher
• Configure gedit
• Configure .bashrc and .bashrc.d
  • add ability to rename gnome-terminal tabs
• Install base apps
• Install CLI utilities