A distro independent deployment Ansible playbook

based on ansible-pull

Works with Debian, RHEL and Arch based distributions. Debian / RHEL, takes advantage of debs, flatpaks and snaps to install certain apps that luckily on Arch are available via the AUR. Therfore the Arch deployment is much simpler but requires AUR module from Ansible Galaxy.

If using Arch based distros:

The script leverages on the excellent ansible-aur module: https://github.com/kewlfft/ansible-aur

paru -S ansible-aur-git
OR
ansible-galaxy install kewlfft.aur

Ansible-pull mode

Leverages the local.yml inventory file.

sudo apt install ansible -y
sudo ansible-pull -U https://github.com/pakyrs/ansible-pull.git

Use --check flag to have a "dry run" and verify if it will work for you.

Ansible mode (using controlling device)

1. setup SSH and key exchange
2. run playbook from controlling machine to target

Future plans

Integrating MacOS (brew) and Windows (chocolatey or winget), the latter for obvious reasons will have a different list of packages.

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