Ansible Dev(Ops) Workstation

Setup any Ubuntu machine for working with common DevOps tools. Supports Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and higher.

Features & software

• Terraform with KVM plugin
• KVM
• VirtualBox
• Visual Studio Code
• Supports installation behind corporate proxy
• Local squid proxy as reverse proxy for corporate proxy
• Fetch MITM root certificate from corporate proxy

Some usefull CLI tools:

• Git
• bmon (Network traffic overview)
• jq (JSON parsing)
• fzf (command-line fuzzy finder)

Preparation on the target system

• Python and Ansible: Could be installed by executing ./install-requirements.sh
• User has sudo permission without password: Add <username> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL to visudo
• SSH access via SSH-Key (copy with e.g. ssh-copy-id user@localhost when running locally)

How to provision

ansible-playbook -i <target-system> [-u username] ansible-devops-workstation.yml -v

Example for local usage:

ansible-playbook -i localhost, ansible-devops-workstation.yml