fuco1 / puppet-ws

Personal workstation configuration with puppet

puppet-ws

Puppet to set up my personal workstations.

Install

Right now some of the steps depend on my dotfiles being present so you might get errors if you run it in a virtual or somewhere testing. I will try to set up Hiera properly to take care of configurable arguments.

apt-get update && apt-get install -y curl && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Fuco1/puppet-ws/master/bootstrap | bash

Building from sources

The majority of applications is pulled in as packages but for some I prefer building from sources. To build applications reliably I use docker to isolate the build dependencies from the environment. I have "invented" a simple standard way to set up these build projects and a corresponding puppet module to pull, build & install.

Inspiration

This setup was mostly inspired by https://github.com/EtiennePerot/pupfiles and https://github.com/vincentbernat/puppet-workstation; go and check it out!

puppet-ws's Issues

Install http://psysh.org/ instead of borisrepl

Config

<?php

// Automatically load project vendor if found
call_user_func(function () {

    $chunks = explode('/', getcwd());
    while (!empty($chunks)) {
        $path = implode('/', $chunks);

        if (is_file($path . '/composer.json')) {
            if (is_file($path . '/vendor/autoload.php')) {
                require_once $path . '/vendor/autoload.php';
            }

            return;
        }

        array_pop($chunks);
    }

});

install pasystray

https://github.com/christophgysin/pasystray

Add some way to force-rebuild "build-base" packages

One way might be to place some file to the build directory, such as .force-rebuild. If present, we build every time independent of the state of the repository.

emacs-build depends on Package['stow'], add the require.

Convert hiera to version 5

Install autojump (`j` in fish)

Use https://github.com/garethr/garethr-docker for docker

Turn .xmonad into a `build::install` compatible repository so we can get rid of the custom xmonad building code

See the xmobar fork build process which already is a build-compatible repo

Separate build into a module for simply building *-build repositories

There is no inherent need to have docker involved.

Setup git credential store

https://askubuntu.com/a/959662 (requires git 2.11+)

gnome-credential-helper is now deprecated.

Instead, use libsecret. If it's not already buil-in your ubuntu, use the following procedure:

1. You can install libsecret and the development libraries with:

   sudo apt-get install libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev

2. Then you need to build the credential manager

   cd /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret

   sudo make

3. Finally, you should point git to the newly created file in your config:

   git config --global credential.helper /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/credential/libsecret/git-credential-libsecret

More details on https://stackoverflow.com/a/40312117/2017781

Add some tests

Check https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt/tree/master/spec for inspiration.

Add a rule for https://github.com/adambrenecki/virtualfish

https://github.com/adambrenecki/virtualfish

Add `inplace` option to `build::install`

This should build inside the repository provided as the source and ignore the tags/revisions. Basically, just build whatever is checked out.

I'm not yet sure how to detect if we want to run the rebuild or not (see also #18)

Configure `updatedb` to ignore useless files

On ubuntu there is a config file in /etc/updatedb.conf where we can set the env variable PRUNENAMES.

This is what I use at my workstation in the office

PRUNENAMES=".git .bzr .hg .svn .cache Trash .mozilla _cacache"

Seems to work really well.

• _cacache comes from nvm/npm

Reduced around 5400 hits for 000 to about 870.

Maybe we could further ignore directories such as .cask and .stack and similar where packages are installed.

Setup docker provider

https://github.com/bubenkoff/vagrant-docker-example

Setup gopass and browserpass

I should've been using this years ago, so good!

• https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass
• https://github.com/browserpass/browserpass/

Extract personal bin directory to hiera

It was ~/bin but after moving to ~/.local/bin I had to do some useless refactoring. This should be set from hiera.

Extract all hardcoded version strings to hiera

Update build::install paths

We should at least include these ['/bin', '/usr/bin', '/usr/local/bin', "${xmonad::home}/.local/bin"] (ref to home instead xmonad home) and the "current" directory as well.

Install puppet-lint and setup Emacs flycheck to use it

build::install should clone into temp and not mess with local dev repository

Ideally we should be able to provide tag/revision we want to build. This might mess with local changes, so we should clone into /tmp and run the process there to make sure we are isolated. We can cache the repositories for repeated builds no problem...

There should be an option to override this and use the local repo though (useful for testing)

Install dotfiles automatically

xmonad is now a stack project, so we need to update that

Move to client-server as the catalog generation is a lot faster

Add a check for version in install-docker-compose and reinstall if necessary

Delete cabal support?

Just use stack for everything.