General utilities ansible role

Used to bootstrap config of every new host. It performs the following tasks:

• Creates an admin user and makes it sudoer
• Sets motd
• Sets custom zsh prompt
• Enables ssh password authentication

It also install following packages:

• git
• tig
• htop
• wget
• tmux
• vim
• unzip
• lnav
• pydf
• lfm
• httpie
• bat
• micro
• eza
• shellcheck
• yadm
• jq
• python3-pip
• direnv
• pass

Automatic Release process

There is a github action to perform a fully automated release process. Just make sure to provide correct conventional commits message:

git commit [--allow-empty] -am "[fix|feat|BREAKING]: Your message here"
git push

The process uses conventional commits to increase version numbers according to the following commit prefixes:

• fix: Increase patch
• feat: Increase minor
• BREAKING: Increase mayor

Role Variables

This role requires the following variables to be defined elsewhere in the playbook that uses it:

admin_user:           admin                     # Administration user for all hosts
admin_password:       admin                     # Admin user password

All of them are already defined in /defaults/main.yml, feel free to overwrite them

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Register the role in requirements.yml:

- src: capitanh.common_ansible_role
  name: common

Include it in your playbooks:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
  - common

License

Apache License, Version 2.0