introduction

• i use ansible to manage my dotfiles
• these currently work on void linux
• in the past i have tried other solutions like shell scripts and gnu stow, but most of them suck.
• i use ansible-vault to encrypt my secrets. everything is in this public repository, at one place.

action

fetch https://printfdebugging.in/dotfiles as dotfiles
run dotfiles

• the dotfiles script manages everything, it installs the needed dependencies like ansible, git etc.
• then once everything is ready, it asks me for the sudo and vault passwords, and that's all!
• once it's done, i reboot the computer, and i have simple minimal dwm setup ready.
• it clones my git repositories, sets up ssh keys, config files, everything else that i can think of.

how

• learn ansible first, learnlinuxtv's ansible playlist is a nice resource.
• then watch techdufus's video demonstrating his dotfiles in action to get more excited.
• put your dotfiles together bit by bit :).

gotchas

• don't use relative paths, they don't work. use /home/{{ ansible_user }}/path instead.