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diff --git a/_posts/2019-03-07-ansible-part-1.md b/_posts/2019-03-07-ansible-part-1.md index 4d81c04..89934e8 100644 --- a/_posts/2019-03-07-ansible-part-1.md +++ b/_posts/2019-03-07-ansible-part-1.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- layout: post -title: "Automating desktop setup with ansible-pull part 1" +title: "Automating desktop setup with ansible-pull part-1" date: 2019-03-07 tags: ['ansible', 'ansible-pull', 'linux', 'fedora'] --- @@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ till I get to point where I was before formatting it, install all packages, select themes, icons, fonts, install IDEs, extensions and so on. After doing it a few times I came to the conclusion ( [genius](https://i.imgur.com/BtWuQgT.png)) that It would be nice to -automate this chore. And as a result, I could tinker a little more with +automate this chore, and as a result, I could tinker a little more with my system and not be afraid of spending a weekend reinstalling -everything (which have happened more time that I'd like) +everything (which have happened more time that I'd likei to remenber) -So after a few attempts using python and bash, I couldn't get something +So after a few attempts using python or/and bash, I couldn't get something that scales and ended with many files and keep the files organized and -concise turned to be more tedious than the setup itself. So it comes +concise turned out to be more tedious than the setup itself. So it comes [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/). It is an enterprise-grade software used to automate tasks. It has many features I can be really helpful as a sysadmin but what we gonna focus here is cliente side of thing using @@ -34,12 +34,12 @@ as better describe: > language. They can describe a policy you want your remote systems to > enforce, or a set of steps in a general IT process. -So what we're gonna do is pull a playbook from a git account a run on -the host, that playbook will have the tasks that we need to setup our +The next step is to pull a playbook from a git account and run on +the host, the playbook will have tasks needed to setup our machine. -To run it locally first we need localhost to all hosts list, to do so we -only the following text to `/etc/ansible/hosts`: +To run it locally first we need to add localhost to hosts list, to do so we +only the following text added to `/etc/ansible/hosts`: {% highlight text %} [all] @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ The playbook to install is quite simple: Fist `hosts:` it is required and it has to match our hosts so we are able to run that playbook. Then `tasks:` which is a list of task that the playbook will perform that in this case will be `dnf install` for -the package vim. +the vim package. Ansible pull requires a repository but for the first example I want to keep it simple so we will use `ansible-playbook` commando to run |