cyf-ansible

Ansible playbook to provision Code Your Future laptops, based on Linux Ubuntu.

• Patch and upgrade the system
• Git
• Chrome and Postman
• Node.JS and npm (install global modules under ~/.npm-global)
• ZSH and Oh my ZSH
• Slack
• Visual Studio Code (with prettier, python and babel extensions)
• PostgreSQL (connect with sudo -u postgres psql)
• MongoDB

Prerequisities

• Ansible (install it with sudo apt-get install ansible on Linux Ubuntu)

Usage

Run from a unique Ansible machine

• Edit the file inventory which describes the machines which you want to run this playbook onto.
• These machines need be reachable over SSH. You need to have one line per machine in the inventory file with the machine IP, the username and SSH password to connect. These machines need to be reachable from the computer which will execute the Ansible playbook (same network).
• Run ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml which will run the Ansible playbook on each machine described in the inventory file.

Run Ansible on each machine

• If for some reason machines cannot be reached by SSH, we can still run the Ansible playbook on each individual machine.
• git clone this repo on each machine
• Edit the file inventory and just mention localhost ansible_connection=local
• Run ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml on each machine.

Testing

You can test this playbook on a VM. You will need Vagrant and VirtualBox installed. Then run vagrant up to bring up the VM and vagrant up --provision to rerun Ansible.