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+<section>
+  <a href="/posts/2019-03-07Automating_desktop_setup_with_ansible-pull_part-1.html">See part 1</a>
+  <p>
+    Now we're going to setup ansible to work with a git repository. The process is
+    quite similar to ansible-playbook, the only difference is that the source for
+    the playbook will be a remote repository and not a local file. Following the
+    previous example we'll get vim setup automated.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+     Create a git repository wherever you see
+     fit, <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/">gitlab</a>
+     and <a href="https://github.com/">github</a> offer free repositories. For
+     this task we need to add only two file: one for the yml file describing the
+     tasks and the .vimrc file.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    In the .vimrc add your own configuration, you can see
+    mine
+    <a href="https://gitlab.com/gabrielgio/homestation/-/blob/debcf3458df511aef9f7dca0cb73f6cf6baddd5d/.vimrc">
+      over here
+    </a>, it is pretty simple as I don't use it but for simple text editing
+    (like this post) so you can start with that if you don't have one.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    The yml file will have two tasks, one is to install vim, just like we did in the part 1.
+<pre><code># main.yml
+---
+- name: install vim
+  dnf:
+    name: vim
+    state: latest</code></pre>
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    To copy .vimrc file to your $HOME we going to
+    use <a href="https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/copy_module.html">copy
+    module</a>:
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    After we've added those two files to repository you will have be something
+    <a href="https://gitlab.com/gabrielgio/homestation/-/tree/debcf3458df511aef9f7dca0cb73f6cf6baddd5d">
+      like this.
+    </a>
+    <br/>
+    Parms:
+    <ul>
+      <li><strong>-i</strong> is a list of hosts</li>
+      <li><strong>-U</strong> is the get repository url</li>
+    </ul>
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    Remember man is your best friend, take a look at <code>man ansible-pull</code> to know
+    more about its parameters.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    The best part you can quickly test and see the result by running my sample:
+<pre><code>ansible-pull \
+    -U https://gitlab.com/gabrielgio/homestation.git \
+    -C debcf3458df511aef9f7dca0cb73f6cf6baddd5d \
+    -i all \
+    main.yml</code></pre>
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    The idea here is to keep your repository as a source of truth when comes to
+    configuration, you can add ansible-pull to a CRON tab, so you just need to
+    push something to your repository and after a few minutes not only your
+    machine but all the machines that have it setup will run the playbooks. You
+    can use this method as a simple way to install software, update machines or
+    even distribute tooling company-wise.
+  </p>
+</section>