dotfiles

Awesome dotfiles sharing the Cyanellow color theme, and Ansible role and playbook to deploy them.

Description

theming

The purpose of these dotfiles is to provide the same look and feel to my terminal-based toolbox. For examples:

• MC's filehighlight.ini and its cyanellow skins, and also .dircolors make that directory contents are displayed with the same colors in mc than with ls --color.

• Vim's netrw directory contents become closer to ls --color output too, even if not so fine-grained.

• GNU Screen and Tmux statuslines look very close, except for the brightness, that is intentionally dimmed in tmux to get a pretty effect when running screen over tmux.

• Screen and Tmux window titles are consistent too, showing the name of the program running in the window. This is achieved by sending them the proper escape sequences from Bash.

• Aptitude UI and MC use a similar colorscheme for their frames and dropdown menus.

These files have been built to work on both

• Debian 9/10 systems (local and remote)
• Redhat 7 systems (remote, accessed from Cygwin)
• Cygwin environment (local)

Initially targetting Debian, they've been adapted to provide me the same productive environment on corporate Windows 10 clients to admin RHEL7 servers than on Debian clients to admin Debian servers.

deployment

As the dotfiles stand in the same directory, they could be deployed on a single host with a command as simple as rsync or scp, and this would be done. But to deploy only a subset of these dotfiles on several dozens of servers, it will be very complicated to not reinvent the wheel.

Apart the ones shipped with the dotfiles themselves, this ansible role provides the following features:

• tag-controlled deployment of sets or subsets of dotfiles
• ability to restore default dotfiles from host's home skeleton

Examples:

ansible-playbook dotfiles.yml --tags debian

will install settings for bash, vim, screen, tmux and mc (which have their own tags too), and also aptitude.

ansible-playbook dotfiles.yml -t required -e force_update=yes

will install settings for bash, vim, screen, overwritting existing files.

ansible-playbook dotfiles.yml -t restore

will restore dotfiles from skeleton and remove all other dotfiles supported by the role.

Requirements

The jmespath python module must be installed on the ansible controller.

Role Variables

dotfiles__skeleton_path: /etc/skel
dotfiles__force_update: "{{ force_update | default(False) }}"

The following per-application variables are supported:

dotfiles__list_bash
dotfiles__list_mc
dotfiles__list_screen
dotfiles__list_tmux
dotfiles__list_vim

The following per-environment variables are supported:

dotfiles__list_cygwin
dotfiles__list_debian
dotfiles__list_redhat

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

---
- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: dotfiles
      force_update: yes

License

GPLv3+

Author Information

[email protected]