ansible-cloudmesh-ubuntu-xenial

Ubuntu xenial development environment setup

This role deploys a development environment on ubuntu xenial taht also includes cloudmesh. It contains the the following items

1. cloudmesh
2. pycharm
3. git
4. mercurial
5. emacs
6. vim
7. pip
8. python
9. jupyter
10. latex
11. dependencies

Instructions

First we assume you have started a vanilla ubuntu xenial (16.04) desktop release.

Next, you need to download the bootstrapping script:

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudmesh/ansible-cloudmesh-ubuntu-xenial/master/bootstrap.sh

Finally, execute the bootstrapping script:

$ bash bootstrap.sh

Testing

If you want to test using the development branch:

download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudmesh/ansible-cloudmesh-ubuntu-xenial/dev/bootstrap.sh
Set TESTING=true before running, eg:

$ TESTING=true bash bootstrap.sh

NOT COMPLETED

Now that the role has been installed on your machine it is time to deploy it. This can be done using the main.yml file located in the tasks directory of the role. It can be deployed by navigating to the tasks directory and using the following command::
```
 $ ansible-playbook main.yml
```

The role can otherwise be deployed from afar by providing the directory in the launch command as such::

$ ansible-playbook ~/directoryofyourchoosing/ansible-cloudmesh-ubuntu-xenial/tasks/main.yml

the role sould now begin to set up your python development environment. If this is not the case, please submit an issue ticket to the to the github repository detailing the issue you encountered::

https://github.com/cloudmesh/ansible-cloudmesh-ubuntu-xenial

Requirements

Any pre-requisites that may not be covered by Ansible itself or the role should be mentioned here. For instance, if the role uses the EC2 module, it may be a good idea to mention in this section that the boto package is required.