dparo's dotfiles

About

This repository contains my personal dotfiles. This repository uses Ansible to bootstrap and provision a fresh install of a Fedora >=37 distribution.

Ansible is an IT automation platform that serves as a good base for deploying dotfiles on a target machine: from installing required dependencies to managing and linking configuration files.

Features

• Secrets management:
  • Installation of private SSH and GPG keys
  • Installation of private environment variables (such as API keys)
• Installation of X.509 certificates
• Installation of base-dependencies
• Git configuration
• Nerd fonts installation
• Installation of development toolchains: python, golang, c/cpp, rust, nodejs, java, maven, ...
• Automatic installation and configuration of the following desktop programs:
  • zsh with starship prompt
  • kitty terminal emulator
  • tmux
  • i3
  • neovim (with lsp support)
  • git and lazygit
  • vscode
  • google-chrome
  • brave-browser
  • ...
• ... and much more

Why not use other dotfiles management tools?

Contrary to other solutions for managing dotfiles such as GNU Stow and Dotbot, which I both used in the past, ansible offers more features:

1. It can manage and synchronize multiple machines in a network.
2. It can do more complex tasks: such as programmatically editing single lines in configuration files, fetching remote sources, performing simple REST API queries.
3. It is a better alternative for installing software and for managing the overall dependencies of the system.
4. It can store and manage secrets.

Installation

Install a fresh Fedora >=37 Gnome distribution.

Simply run:

bash <(curl -Ls https://dparo.github.io/dotfiles)

to bootstrap the dotfiles.

Equivalently you can use the following command:

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dparo/dotfiles/master/scripts/bootstrap.sh)