So after finding out about Ansible I took a deep dive into the documentation and made myself some scripts to auto-setup my server and my client pcs. You can find the playbooks in This repo. Please note that these playbooks are heavily inspired by my personal workflow. Currently, this is in it’s early phase so the configuration is not so straightforward as wanted
Initial setup
To start using this you’ll need to install a default installation of Archlinux on all your computers, because I made those playbooks only for Arch, but feel free to post pull requests to the repo.
There are many guides available for installation, if you’re new and interested I recommend the official guide, but if you used it before and find the installation time consuming, check out Anarchy.
After you finish the installation. Install the ssh server on all the to-be provisioned machines (Archlinux has a great guide exactly for this).
Now after you have all the machines prepared, with working ssh access. Clone the repo on your main machine, I keep all my repos in the ~/build/ folder.
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mkdir ~/build
cd ~/build
git clone https://github.com/deadhead420/anarchy-linux
cd anarchy-linux
Configuring the machines
Edit the hosts.yaml file with any editor you like and configure your computers, with the help of this guide.
Edit the variables and set them according to your setup, please note that the first item in hosted_websites must equal default_website. This is for the certificates to work correctly.
Generate a key pair in the keys/ directory with ssh-keygen and set the key_name according to the name.
Execute the playbooks:
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ansible-playbook -i hosts.yml 0_users.yaml
ansible-playbook -i hosts.yml 1_initial.yaml
ansible-playbook -i hosts.yml 2_daemons.yaml
After the playbooks are done, edit the sites in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and configure them according to your needs.
You can also customize the playbooks!