.___      __    _____.__.__
          __| _/_____/  |__/ ____\__|  |   ____   ______
         / __ |/  _ \   __\   __\|  |  | _/ __ \ /  ___/
        / /_/ (  <_> )  |  |  |  |  |  |_\  ___/ \___ \
   _____\____ |\____/|__|  |__|  |__|____/\___  >____  >_____
  /_____/    \/                               \/     \/_____/

dotfiles

My attempt at a reproducible workstation environment for my computers, mostly on a OSX.

Install

1. Install Dropbox
2. Configure Dropbox. Sync only the folder called: Mackup, which stores the various encrypted secrets. (See TODO).
3. Run:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/mahmoudimus/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
git submodule update --init --recursive

NOTE: The ~/dotfiles is hardcoded as the dotfiles repository path in this project. Let me know if this is a problem.

Bootstraping

To bootstrap a workstation, execute setup.sh which will install Ansible on the system, alongside all the below requirements.

If you're on OSX, setup.sh will also install xcode and the xcode command-line utilities.

Requirements

These requirements will be installed by themselves.

• ansible 1.8
• homebrew-brewdler
• mackup

Ansible Playbook?

Yes. This is an OS-aware ansible playbook composed of roles that install the applications required for setting up the workstation.

Here's how to run this ansible playbook:

ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False ansible-playbook  -i 127.0.0.1, -vvvv -b --become-method=sudo -K --connection=local setup.yml

After you're done, run mackup restore. Done :-)

References

Github

• https://osxc.github.io/
• https://github.com/peterhajas/dotfiles
• https://github.com/palcu/dotfiles
• https://github.com/danieljaouen/ansible-dotfiles
• https://github.com/spencergibb/battleschool
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles
• https://github.com/joshingly/dotfiles
• https://github.com/tmaeda1981jp/dotfiles
• https://github.com/hanjianwei/dotfiles
• https://github.com/daniruiz/dotfiles
• https://github.com/muchzill4/setup

Similar Projects (?)

• https://github.com/jverdeyen/macplan
• https://github.com/searls/icloud-dotfiles

Blogs

• http://il.luminat.us/blog/2014/04/19/how-i-fully-automated-os-x-with-ansible/
• http://www.eightbitraptor.com/post/bootstrapping-osx-ansible
• https://dotfiles.github.io/

TODO

• This is only for a workstation, what about dotfiles for sysadmining?
• Submit to iusethis and howistart?
• Explore GNU stow?
  • Explore dotgpg with GNU stow instead of Mackup.

Bugs

• Mackup traverses symlinks, some of which are linked to the Desktop, Downloads, etc and that can potentially cause huge disk space issues