Ansible Ubuntu Workstation

Ansible playbook designed to quickly deploy a new Ubuntu workstation.

This was based largely on https://github.com/Benoth/ansible-ubuntu. If you're building your own, I'd recommend starting there.

Requirements

• Git
• Ansible 2+ (automatically installed from Ansible offical PPA with the provided install.sh script)

Installation

1. First, install Git and Ansible using the install script :

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/tatwell/ansible-ubuntu-workstation.git
cd ansible-ubuntu-workstation
./install.sh

2. Review and customize the playbook ansible-desktop.yml
3. Update settings in group_vars/all.yml.

Galaxy roles

To install a new role from Galaxy:

ansible-galaxy install username.rolename

To update a Galaxy role:

ansible-galaxy install --force username.rolename

Usage

To run the playbook:

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

Manual Steps

After running the playbook, I still need to do the following tasks manually:

• Reload the shell to enable updates:

    source ~/.bashrc
    source /etc/profile
  

• Create default user postgresql database:

    createdb
  
    # Now you should be able to connect to postgres.
    psql
  

• On Jenkins server, add Python installations for the Shining Panda plugin:

  • Manage Jenkins > Global Tool Configuration > Python installations
  • Input following settings:
    • Name: Jenkins-Pyenv-Python-2.7.8
    • Home or executable: /var/lib/jenkins/pyenv/versions/2.7.8/bin/python2
  • Push Add Python button.

• As jenkins user, update password settings in /var/lib/jenkins/.env/local-wiki.env.

• Configure backups:

  • System Settings > Backups > Install
  • Configure settings (menu on left of settings dialog)
  • Turn on backups (toggle switch in upper right of dialog to ON)
  • For an automated approach, see these roles in Galaxy.

• Move existing VirtualBox VMs:

  • See this thread: https://superuser.com/q/633431
  • If you get an error copying VM files because they are too large, see this article.
  • After copying and adding VM, update shared folder under Settings.

• tmux

  • To install plugins: tmux > CTRL-B > I

Roles

See ansible-desktop.yml for the roles used by this playbook. A summary of many roles can be found at:

• https://github.com/Benoth/ansible-ubuntu#roles-included