Ansible Role: chezmoi

DISCLAIMER

After this announcement I will not test on RHEL anymore.

An ansible role role that installs and initializes chezmoi. In addition to the main application, the module creates a systemd service and timer to be used to setup auto updates of dotfiles for the users.

Requirements

git should be installed before.

Role Variables

Available variables and their defaults values are listed in defaults/main.yml.

chezmoi_repo: twpayne/chezmoi
chezmoi_version: latest

The repository and the version of chezmoi that will be installed.

chezmoi_users: []
# chezmoi_users:
#   - user: XXX
#     repo: YYY [optional: dotfiles repository]
#     start_timer: bool [optional, default 'false']

The list of the local users and their dotfiles repositories. For each user in the list, if not already initialized, will be executed:

chezmoi init --apply <REPO>

start_timer controls wheter the systemd timer to keep the downloaded dotfiles repo in sync will be started and enabled for each user.

chezmoi_update_cron: hourly

Set the OnCalendar parameter for the systemd timer unit. This value is the same for all the users.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: all
  vars:
    chezmoi_users:
    - user: my_user
      repo: my_dotfile_repo
      start_timer: true
  roles:
  - alecunsolo.chezmoi

License

MIT

Notes

Testing with molecule (including the docker images used) is stolen from heavily inspired by Jeff Geerling. Watch his video (and the other ones as well).