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Ansible Ubuntu Workstation Preparation Playbook

Introduction

This playbook is designed to install the common tools used when developing with Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04. The general plays completed by the playbook are as follows:

  1. Prepares the workstation (updates packages and installs pip)
  2. Installs useful Python libraries
  3. Installs git, git-subrepo and GitEye
  4. Installs Atom text editor
  5. Installs Haroopad Markdown editor
  6. Installs Docker and tools
  7. Installs NodeJS and NPM
  8. Installs vim
  9. Installs Yeoman

Usage

  1. Clone the repository or download an archive of the repository

  2. Run the Ansible installer

    sudo bash install_ansible.sh

  3. Run the Ansible playbook

    ansible-playbook prep.yml

Post Deployment Considerations

  • Log out and log in (again)

  • GitEye (visual interface to git), type

     giteye &

  • Atom is available from the menu

  • Haroopad is available from the menu

  • The remaining tools are only available from command line

Target Client Template Pre-requisites

  1. Logged into an Ubuntu workstation
  2. User account is allowed to run SUDO without password prompt

Ansible Roles Included in the Playbook

atom

Downloads Atom from Github and installs it.

docker

Installs Docker and useful Dockers tools (docker-compose etc.) from the official public repository.

git

  • Install Git using apt-get.
  • Clones the Github repository for git-subrepo and includes the executable in the user's path
  • Downloads and install GitEye from Collab.net

haroopad

Downloads and installs Haroopad

npm

Adds the official Node repository and installs node.js and npm.

pip

Installs useful Python libraries (including Ansible) using pip.

ubuntu-prep

Install pip and updates the OS using apt-get.

vim

Install VIM using apt-get and set the editor as the default command line editor.

yo

Install Yeoman

Version History

Version Release Date Author Description
0.1 08 Jan 2016 Peter Dam Initial release
0.2 15 Feb 2016 Peter Dam Updated to include Haroopad
0.3 08 Mar 2016 Peter Dam Updated the readme.md and replaced git-stree with git-subrepo