dotfiles

Repository containing my personal .dotfiles configurations, making it easy to set-up and synchronize my developer environment across machines. This set-up is hugely inspired by the TechDufus dotfiles set-up which can be found here. Basically most concepts and config is copied from his repo and modified / tweaked / stripped to my own liking. The goal is to provide a fully automated and maintainable Ubuntu development environment that works seamlessly on both WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and standard Ubuntu installations.

Ansible

A huge part of the set-up makes use of Ansible (first run of the dotfiles script it will install Ansible itself).

Installation

This script will install Ansible, synchronize the git repo, and run the Ansible playbook. After the first run the script will be added to the $PATH so that from then on it can always be ran via dotfiles.

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ramonvermeulen/dotfiles/main/bin/dotfiles)"

NOTE: Might require one restart after running the zsh role

Updates

To update your environment run the dotfiles command in your shell:

dotfiles

This will handle the following tasks:

• Verify Ansible is up-to-date
• Generate SSH keys and add to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
• Clone this repository locally to ~/.dotfiles
• Verify any ansible-galaxy plugins are updated
• Run this playbook with the values in ~/.config/dotfiles/group_vars/all.yaml

This dotfiles command is available to you after the first use of this repo, as it adds this repo's bin directory to your path, allowing you to call dotfiles from anywhere.

Any flags or arguments you pass to the dotfiles command are passed as-is to the ansible-playbook command.

For Example: Running the btop tag with verbosity

dotfiles -t btop -vvv

vault.secret

The vault.secret file allows you to encrypt values with Ansible vault and store them securely in source control. Create a file located at ~/.config/dotfiles/vault.secret with a secure password in it.

vim ~/.ansible-vault/vault.secret

To then encrypt values with your vault password use the following:

$ ansible-vault encrypt_string --vault-password-file $HOME/.ansible-vault/vault.secret "mynewsecret" --name "MY_SECRET_VAR"
$ cat myfile.conf | ansible-vault encrypt_string --vault-password-file $HOME/.ansible-vault/vault.secret --stdin-name "myfile"

NOTE: This file will automatically be detected by the playbook when running dotfiles command to decrypt values. Read more on Ansible Vault here.