.dotfiles

A collection of my Ansible roles, and a bootstrap, to automatize my Arch Linux environment setup in any device.

Down below is a section about Ansible for the ones that never had heard about, and other about how the project is organized.

Installing the dotfiles 🐧

Clone the repo 📥

# With HTTPS
$ git clone https://github.com/Darguima/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles

# With SSH
$ git clone git@github.com:Darguima/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

Now you can go to the folder ~/.dotfiles and start the setup.

Setting up the environment 🏗️

To install all the dependencies (like Ansible), you can run the setup bootstrap bin. If you want to understand what it does, or setup everything manually, check the manual setup documentation.

$ ./bin/setup

Installing dotfiles 🚀

To avoid run Ansible command manually, with all the needed flags, I set up a bootstrap bin to run everything for you. If you want to understand what it does, or run Ansible manually, check the manual installation documentation.

$ ./bin/install <pass any ansible flag here>

Filtering roles

If you just want install/update some of the roles, or even skip some of them, you can do it with tags. Find what tags you want to use on the filtering documentation.

Ansible

Before do anything, you should learn a little about Ansible, if you had never heard about it.

Ansible will run a bunch of commands, organized in yaml files. You can run Ansible in an host machine to install the dotfiles on the target machine, with ansible using SSH on the background. Although, on our case, we aren't using this remote feature.

You can find more about Ansible on their docs, and more about this projects at the section "How the project is organized".

How the project is organized

A role is folder with yaml files that organize the tasks, files, vars, etc for a specific context. For example, in this case, each role will install and/or configure some app, like install and configure the zsh or the docker. You can find all my roles on the folder ./roles.

While some of the roles are very intuitive in what they do (because are just the app name), here is a list for the ones that do more specific and uncommon tasks:

system_prepare

Every configuration that is needed to be done before run all the tasks, like install some general dependency, or create a dotfile config file, will be done here. This is the first role that runs.

appearance

This role will configure the window manager, QT and GTK apps appearance, installing themes and icons packages.

general_programs

Here will be installed all the programs that don't need any configuration, just need to be installed (e.g. LibreOffice, Discord).