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Taha Ahmed 6 months ago
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## Getting started ## Getting started
You have a freshly installed OS. Now we will install and configure our desktop You have a freshly installed OS. Now we will install and configure your workstation
using Ansible *in pull mode* from this repo. using Ansible *in pull mode* from this repo.
First, install Ansible on your machine (to do that we first install `pip`, then First, install Ansible on your machine (to do that we first install `pip`, then
use that to install `ansible`): use that to install `ansible`):
``` ```
$ sudo apt install python3-pip $ sudo apt install python3-pip
$ sudo python3 -m pip install ansible $ sudo python3 -m pip install ansible jmespath
``` ```
Note that this installs `ansible` and its related binaries in `/usr/local/bin/`. Note that this installs `ansible` and its related binaries in `/usr/local/bin/`.
We do it this way to avoid messing with `PATH` or virtual environments at this point. We do it this way to avoid messing with `PATH` or virtual environments at this point.
We also installed `jmespath` which is required by the `json_query` filter which
is used in some tasks of this playbook.
`ansible-pull` pulls a playbook from a remote repo and executes it on the host. `ansible-pull` pulls a playbook from a remote repo and executes it on the host.
``` ```
$ ansible-pull -U https://codeberg.org/ansible/playbook-workstation $ ansible-pull -U https://codeberg.org/ansible/playbook-workstation --ask-become-pass
``` ```
The warning about `Could not match supplied host pattern` can [safely be disregarded](https://stackoverflow.com/a/55821135/1198249).
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### Ansible pull ### Ansible pull
+ https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/cli/ansible-pull.html
+ https://medium.com/splunkuserdeveloperadministrator/using-ansible-pull-in-ansible-projects-ac04466643e8 + https://medium.com/splunkuserdeveloperadministrator/using-ansible-pull-in-ansible-projects-ac04466643e8
+ https://medium.com/@emilfabrice/configure-your-linux-machines-with-ansible-pull-4cbca69613fa + https://medium.com/@emilfabrice/configure-your-linux-machines-with-ansible-pull-4cbca69613fa
+ https://www.devopsschool.com/blog/what-is-ansible-pull-and-how-can-we-use-it + https://www.devopsschool.com/blog/what-is-ansible-pull-and-how-can-we-use-it
+ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55820887/how-to-resolve-warning-could-not-match-supplied-host-pattern-ignoring-machin
### Ansible inventory
+ https://evrard.me/convert-ansible-inventories-with-ansible-inventory-cli
(the `ansible-inventory` CLI can convert `hosts` files from `INI` to `YAML`, among other tricks)
via https://stackoverflow.com/a/51596307/1198249

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