Ansible Workstation Playbook

This playbook installs the software that I use on my Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) workstation.

Supported operating systems

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Installation

1. Clone the repository and change to it:

   git clone https://github.com/wozorio/ansible-workstation-playbook.git && \
   cd ansible-workstation-playbook

2. Install Ansible (and dependencies):

   make bootstrap

3. Run the playbook with default settings:

   make run

Running a specific set of tagged tasks

You can filter which software to install by specifying the respective tag(s) using ansible-playbook's --tags flag.

The tags available are:

Tag	Description
customizations	Perform OS customizations
devops_tools	Install DevOps tools such as Helm, Kubectl, Kubens, Kubectx, Stern and Terraform
docker	Install Docker
utils	Install utilities (i.e.: jq, unzip, git, etc)
zsh	Install Zsh

Usage example

Running a subset of tasks only

make run args='--tags "customizations, docker"'

Excluding specific tasks from execution

make run args='--skip-tags "zsh"'

Overriding variables during runtime

make run args='--extra-vars "user=wozorio"'