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Dotfile Management

This is a personal dotfile management tool based on Ansible that currently supports installation and configuration of the following tools:

• git
• github-cli
• golang
• jq
• yq (jq for yaml)
• kubectl
• zsh with oh-my-zsh
• vim with some plugins
• tmux
• awscli
• watchexec
• terraform
• gcloud (gcp command line tool)
• glow command line markdown viewer

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Setting up a new machine

Make sure that brew (on macos) and git are pre-installed. Then run this:

cd ~
git clone [email protected]:tastybug/dotfiles-ansible .dotfiles

Run .dotfiles/bin/dot-bootstrap.sh vim,git,... next, listing one or more tools for installation.

On a Corporate Machine

git

On corp issued machines you usually have a assigned e-mail address and user name, not matching the name on github. The git role creates a git configuration that makes assumptions about the name, email address so you need to overwrite those. To install the git role with custom settings, run this:

ansible-playbook -i ~/.dotfiles/hosts ~/.dotfiles/dotfiles.yml --extra-vars "full_name='John Doe' github_user=jdoe [email protected]" --tags git

zsh

You likely have differing paths, environment variables and so on that take precedence over those provided by this repository. Check ./roles/zsh/files/zshrc:

# *_external files not provided by this project
# use those to have stable local deviations e.g. for a corp machine
if [[ -a $HOME/.dotfiles/roles/zsh/aliases_external.zsh ]]; then
    source $HOME/.dotfiles/roles/zsh/aliases_external.zsh
fi
if [[ -a $HOME/.dotfiles/roles/zsh/completion_external.zsh ]]; then
    source $HOME/.dotfiles/roles/zsh/completion_external.zsh
fi
if [[ -a $HOME/.dotfiles/roles/zsh/path_external.zsh ]]; then
    source $HOME/.dotfiles/roles/zsh/path_external.zsh
fi
if [[ -a $HOME/.dotfiles/roles/zsh/env_external.zsh ]]; then
    source $HOME/.dotfiles/roles/zsh/env_external.zsh
fi

Further Reading

Inspired by kespinola/dotfiles and Manage your dotfiles with Ansible