Arch-Ansible is a playbook designed to install Arch Linux on a target machine. It was conceived to ease the preparation of virtual machines, but it can also be used to install on bare metal.
The simplest way to get started is to provision a VM with Arch Linux to try the playbook out. Both VirtualBox and QEMU (possibly via libvirt) are supported, but the examples below use VirtualBox because it has been supported since the start, so the playbook is well-tested against it.
First, change some default settings by writing the
following YAML snippet to ansible/group_vars/all/50-user-settings.yaml
and customize it to suit your regional settings:
# Set your timezone, locale and keymap
locale_timezone: Europe/Rome
locale_locale: it_IT.UTF-8
locale_keymap: it
users_root_info:
# Choose a root password
password: "abcd$1234_root"
users_info:
# Change "manu" to your username
manu:
# Choose a password for your user.
# You'll be able to use sudo.
password: "abcd$1234_manu"
is_admin: true
Now, if you want Packer to build a brand new VM image, type:
cd packer
packer build -only=virtualbox-iso packer-template.json
or, if you prefer to spin up a turn-key Vagrant machine, go with:
cd vagrant
# A reload is required after provisioning
vagrant up --provider=virtualbox && vagrant reload
There's a good deal of things that can be customized: DE themes, preinstalled utilities, screensaver behaviour and more. Have a look at the documentation for more information. The side projects section links to specific documentation about integration with Vagrant and Packer.
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