Server Setup

This is a simple role to configure Linux servers with a base set of packages and shell configuration that I prefer. It will configure a list of users on the remote Linux servers with Fish shell as the default shell, will display NeoFetch on login, will configure Fish with Oh My Fish and the Bob the Fish theme, and will setup VIM with my preferred configuration. Currently, it supports RHEL, Debian, and Arch Linux distributions and FreeBSD.

Requirements

Ansible >= 2.9

Run ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml to ensure that Ansible has dependencies for this role installed.

Role Variables

• groups_to_create: A list of groups that should exist on the remote servers.

  groups_to_create:
    - www

• users: A list of users on the remote server to create or update. This is typically the default user to login to the server and ultimately the scott account that I configure for myself.

  users:
    - name: scott
      admin: true # add to wheel or sudo
      groups:
        - some_group

• passwordless_sudo: Enables passwordless privilege escalation to the wheel or sudo groups.

• ssh_public_keys: A list of SSH public keys that will be added to the authorized_keys file for all of the users added. These are local files copied to the remote server.

  ssh_public_keys:
    - "{{ lookup('file', lookup('env','HOME') + '/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub') }}"
    - "{{ lookup('file', lookup('env','HOME') + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"

• omf_install_script_url: The location to the install script for Oh My Fish.

  omf_install_script_url: "https://get.oh-my.fish"

• ultimate_vim_git_url: URL to the Git repo for Ultimate VIM.

  omf_install_script_url: "https://github.com/amix/vimrc.git"

Dependencies

• Ansible Collections
  • community.general

Example Playbook

Example playbook that configures my home VMs configured through Vagrant.

---
- hosts: home
  become: true

  vars:
    ssh_public_keys:
      - "{{ lookup('file', lookup('env','HOME') + '/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub') }}"
      - "{{ lookup('file', lookup('env','HOME') + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub') }}"
    groups_to_create:
      - some_group
    users:
      - name: vagrant
        admin: true
        groups:
          - some_group
      - name: scott
        admin: false

  roles:
    - role: ~/Programming/Ansible/roles/server-setup

License

MIT