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)

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

To install a new role from Galaxy:

ansible-galaxy install username.rolename

To update a Galaxy role:

ansible-galaxy install --force username.rolename

To run the playbook:

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

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

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