Dotfiles

This repo contains my own dev configuration files, a.k.a dotfiles. The configurations are managed with GNU Stow, and automated with Ansible

This playbook currently supports Fedora. Ubuntu and MacOS playbooks are in the work.

Ansible

Pre-requisites

Ansible is able to automate 99% of the process, however it does require the following packages to be present:

• Python3 and pip
• Ansible

Note: 9 out of 10 times, Python and pip are shipped out of the box with a Linux distro.

To install Ansible:

sudo dnf install ansible

dotfiles playbook

As ansible.cfg and inventory are placed under ansible/ directory, the execution of the the playbook will need to be from this directory:

cd ~/.dotfiles/ansible

Running the playbook locally

If there is a vault file present (ignored by .gitignore):

ansible-playbook dotfiles.yml --become-pass-file vaut --vault-pass-file vaut

Otherwise, specify passwords at prompts:

ansible-playbook dotfiles.yml --ask-become-pass --ask-vault-pass

Running the playbook remotely

Current, some very minor modification of inventory and dotfiles.yml is required.

[local]
localhost

[local:vars]
ansible_connection=local

[remotes]
x.x.x.x

- name: The "I-specialise-in-automation" dotfiles playbook
  hosts: remotes
  roles:
    # Standard tools/packages
    - utils
    ...

Finally, execute playbook in remote servers:

ansible-playbook dotfiles.yml

Note: Unless remote hosts are part of long term workflow, don't commit their IP addresses to Git repo.

dotfiles

For more details, refer to each package's README.md:

• 1Password
• kitty
• neovim
• bat
• git
• htop
• lazygit
• pet
• tmux
• zsh