provisioner

Provisioner is an ansible playbook that allow to quickly configure Gnome DE on RHEL-like systems.

Supported distributions

• Fedora 41
• OracleLinux 9

Bare metal usage

Anaconda stage: [use kickstart file] (https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boot-options.html#inst-ks)

inst.ks=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zimmnik/provisioner/master/kickstart/[fedora,oracle].cfg

System stage:

passwd
useradd --groups wheel --create-home someusername && passwd someusername

# logout and login as sudo user
# WARNING! Don't use tty1 console, use tty4 instead, because playbook will start systemd's graphical.target
logout

sudo yum -y install git
git clone https://github.com/zimmnik/provisioner.git && cd provisioner/ansible

# Setup Fedora python venv
sudo yum --assumeyes --quiet install python3-pip
python3 -m venv --upgrade-deps .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
# Setup Oracle python venv
sudo yum --assumeyes --quiet install python3.12-pip
python3.12 -m venv --upgrade-deps .venv && source .venv/bin/activate

pip install --requirement pip_requirements.txt
export ANSIBLE_CONFIG=ansible.cfg
ansible-galaxy install --role-file galaxy_requirements.yml
ansible-playbook deploy.yml --ask-become-pass --extra-vars "hostname=somename" [--tags basic]

Development

Requirements

• git v2.40
• python v3.12
• vagrant-libvirt v0.7
• 4GB RAM free for guest

git clone https://github.com/zimmnik/provisioner.git && cd provisioner/vagrant
vagrant up --no-destroy-on-error [fedora|oracle]