Ansible Role: My Shell

An Ansible Role that installs shell utilities and deploys various dotfiles on Ubuntu 18.04.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Git Variables

• my_shell_git_username: the name used to author your commits
• my_shell_git_email: the email used to author your commits
• my_shell_git_key_fingerprint: the fingerpring of the GPG key used to sign your commits (can be left undefined)

See the my_shell_git_config variable in defaults/main.yml to further configure git.

Bash variables

• my_shell_bash_aliases: list of bash aliases (check the syntax and default values in defaults/main.yml)
• my_shell_additional_bash_aliases: list of additional bash aliases in case you do not want to overload my_shell_bash_aliases
• my_shell_command_complete: list of completion scripts for commands (check the syntax and default values in defaults/main.yml)

Ansible Variables

• my_shell_ansible_forks: number of forks ansible should use
• my_shell_ansible_callback_whitelist: callback plugins to whitelist
• my_shell_ansible_cows: set this to false to prevent ansible to render its output throught cowsay when it is installed
• my_shell_ansible_pipelining: set this to true to enable ansible pipelining

See the my_shell_ansible_config variable in defaults/main.yml to further configure ansible.

Hosts file Variables

• my_shell_add_hosts_from_inventory: set this to true to automatically add hosts from your inventory file to your /etc/hosts file. Your inventory file should have a structure similar to this:

---
all:
  hosts:
    my_host_1:
      ansible_host: 10.0.0.1
    my_host_2:
      ansible_host: 10.0.0.2

SSH Variables

• my_shell_ssh_user: your username when login on remote servers by SSH
• my_shell_ssh_key: location of your main SSH key (optional, defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa)

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- name: Install shell utilities and deploy various dotfiles
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - hadrienpatte.my_shell

License

MIT

Author Information

Hadrien Patte