How do I automate dotfiles setup / management with ansible?

Question

Bootstrapping dotfiles setup via scripts (bash, zsh) eventually gets complicated. How can Ansible be leveraged to automate setup?

Answer 1

Steps:

• Clone the repo: ellaqezi/dotfiles on github into $dotfiles_dir
• Install Ansible

• Run the playbook (the become password is your user's password)

  cd $dotfiles_dir/ansible
  ansible-playbook -i hosts setup-dotfiles.yml --ask-become-pass
  

Do also check out the dotfiles utilities listed in https://dotfiles.github.io/