Workstation Setup

Assumptions

• Ubuntu 21.10 (should mostly work on other releases though, and Debian should only take a few tweaks)
• 🆕 ...or Manjaro. Might work with Arch, too.
• You like the same tools as me...

Setup

Install Latest Ansible

Ubuntu

sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt install ansible

Arch / Manjaro

sudo pacman -S ansible

Run playbook

Note that this installs the Galaxy roles, but you can do this manually with:

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Then:

Ubuntu

ansible-playbook -e "user=$USER" playbook.yml -K --skip-tags manjaro

Manjaro

ansible-playbook -e "user=$USER" playbook.yml -K --skip-tags ubuntu

Just run the configure role

ansible-playbook -e "user=$USER" playbook.yml --tags configure

Features

Using local and various excellent Ansible Galaxy roles, you get:

Tools, Shells, Editors

• Zsh & oh-my-zsh
• Alacritty
• Starship
• Nice Tmux (& plugins), plus config

Communications

• Slack, Signal

Various programming languages:

• Python3 (+ Poetry)
• Latest OpenJDK
• Latest Node
• Latest Haskell (GHC + Stack),
• Latest Rust

DevOps / Systems Tooling

• Nix, plus Nix Flakes
• Docker CE
• Terraform
• Virtualbox
• Kubernetes
• nmap, htop, jq, httpie etc

...and more (see playbook).