Archible

Ansible roles to install and configure ArchLinux

Usage

The playbook with these roles are supposed to be run on the machine that you want to install Arch on. You have to boot into Arch from an installation medium and install the ansible-core and ansible packages, then clone this repo and run the playbook with local connection.

Prerequisites

• update the system clock

timedatectl set-ntp true

• increase the disk size for the live environment

mount -o remount,size=1G /run/archiso/cowspace

• install git, ansible and it's python dependencies

pacman -Sy git ansible-core ansible python-packaging python-jmespath python-passlib

Usage example

Example playbook

- hosts: archiso
  connection: local
  roles:
    - arch_init

- hosts: chroot
  connection: chroot
  roles:
    - arch_config

Example variables

group_vars/all/partitions.yml

install_drive: /dev/nvme0n1
boot_partition_suffix: p1
swap_partition_suffix: p2
root_partition_suffix: p3

group_vars/chroot/config.yml

arch_config_standard_packages:
  - acpilight
  - bat
arch_config_timezone: Europe/Budapest
arch_config_locale: en_US.UTF-8
arch_config_user_name: my_user
arch_config_user_password: my_password_hash
arch_config_user_groups: wheel
arch_config_hostname: my_hostname

ansible-playbook -i inventory playbook.yml