Ansible Setup

Ansible is an amazingly efficient way to build servers, you can even configure a laptop or server by running Ansible directly on it, which I do to make rebuilding machines much more efficient as Ansible can control what gets installed, from where and how it is configured.

Currently, as my work box is a Linux box the instructions below are for Linux boxes only, but WSL is a good option for Microsoft Windows, I will update on how to configure a Windows box too.

For detail information see the machine_setup.md () read me.

Ansible Resources

To make life easy, here is a tarball of all of the required files including configuration files and other resources (see below) which you need, machine_setup.tar.

IMPORTANT. A number of resources may be added depending on the tags you select, it looks for some these files in the machine_setup directory which is where you have put all of the above files.

See for these resources, these are included in the resources tarball machine_setup.tar.

Individual Ansible Scripts
• machine_setup_ansible.yml - My machine level setup Ansible script ()
• machine_setup_ansible_wsl.yml - My machine level for WSL setup Ansible script ()
• work_setup_ansible.yml - My work level setup Ansible script ()
• work_setup_ansible_wsl.yml - My work level for WSL setup Ansible script ()
• additional_apps_setup_ansible.yml - My additional apps level setup Ansible script ()
• entertainment_apps_setup_ansible.yml - My Entertainment apps level setup Ansible script ()
• wine_apps_setup_ansible.yml - My Wine apps level setup Ansible script ()
• wserver_apps_setup_ansible.yml - My WebServer level setup Ansible script ()

NOTE: The files above have directory paths with relative or absolute links which work for me but you will have to change the paths for however you prefer to setup your infrastructure.