Ansible

Repository for installation of frequently used software on empty virtual machines.

Developed by:

• Barbera van Schaik, [email protected]
• ...

Requirements

The Ansible script assumes a virtual machine running Ubuntu. It might also work on Debian.

Manual steps

Install Ansible and Git

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible # this line might give an error that you can ignore
sudo apt install ansible git

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/EDS-Bioinformatics-Laboratory/ansible.git

Configure general-VM.yml en config.yml: change the username to your own username (at top of the scripts)

Installation with Ansible

Run a sudo command before you run ansible, otherwise the script can't do operations as root

sudo ls

Install software

ansible-playbook -i hosts -v general-VM.yml

Disconnect from the VM and start a new session, this will:

• Activate conda by sourcing the bashrc
• Enable visual output via X11 (e.g. for VScode)

VScode can run from the commandline: code &

Software installation

• python
• conda
• VScode
• Apptainer (Singularity)
• R, renv

To implement

• common libraries via renv
• common python packages via conda environment