PC Setup

Ansible playbook for setting up my personal PC

Installation

1. Modify the roles in the site.yml that you would like to apply to the PC.
2. [Optional] Change the host name in the site.yml and inventory files
3. Run the install.sh script:

   . ./install.sh

Repository Structure

.
├── roles/
│   ├── fedora-base/
│   │   ├── files/
│   │   │   └── …
│   │   └── tasks/
│   │       ├── main.yml
│   │       └── …
│   ├── fedora-gnome/
│   │   ├── files/
│   │   │   └── …
│   │   └── tasks/
│   │       ├── main.yml
│   │       └── …
│   ├── fedora-intel-graphics/
│   │   ├── files/
│   │   │   └── …
│   │   └── tasks/
│   │       ├── main.yml
│   │       └── …
│   └── …
├── install.sh
├── inventory
├── README.md
└── site.yml

The roles folder contains the configurations for the different roles (see Roles for more details). Each role contains some tasks and optionally some files that are used to set up the PC. Tasks are usually grouped into dnfs, flatpaks and configs the contents of which is applied through the corresponding main.yml. Change the contents of these tasks to make changes to how the PC is set up.

The install.sh script is used to start the PC setup installation

The inventory file contains the hosts and their location on which the Ansible setup runs. Since this is a local installation the location of the host is "localhost". The name of the host may be changed, but beware that the name also needs to be changed in the site.yml.

The README.md is this README.

The site.yml is the file that specifies which roles should be applied to which host. If your PC setup changes in a major way (e.g. different desktop environment or GPU hardware), apply different roles here (they would of course need to be defined in the roles directory).

Roles

fedora-base

This is the base role for every fedora setup, independent of desktop environment and graphics stack, installing what I consider are must have applications and adjusting the necessary configurations.

fedora-gnome

This installs gnome specific applications and modifies the environment to fit my liking.

fedora-intel-graphics

This installs packages and configurations required for seamless usage of Intel GPU hardware on a fedora system.

Troubleshooting

• If Ansible hangs after you have entered the BECOME password and you have set up fingerprint authentication, simply authenticate with your fingerprint even if you are not prompted to. This is a bug with Ansible.

You can test the Ansible Playbook using the --check flag when calling the Ansible Playbook command, like so:

ansible-playbook site.yml --inventory inventory --ask-become-pass --check