freebsd-laptops

Ansible playbooks for automating the setup and use of laptop devices.

Usage

% make plan
% make apply

# Or if you prefer the full ansible-playbook(1) syntax:
% ansible-playbook --check -s site.yml -e @config.yml # equivalent to `make plan`
% ansible-playbook         -s site.yml -e @config.yml # equivalent to `make apply`

Customization

# To customize the defaults:
% cp config.yml{.sample,}
% $(EDITOR) config.yml
% ansible-playbook -s site.yml -e @config.yml

Installation

To make use of this repository, you must install sudo and ansible:

# pkg install security/sudo
# pkg install sysutils/ansible

Debugging

% ansible -m setup -s localhost
% ansible -vvv -m setup -s localhost

TODO

• Support non-Lenovo T420 devices (i.e. add more roles/laptop-* plays)
• Add a poudriere for building ports specific to the config of your laptop
• Enable/disable features based on the kern.osreldate
• Setup and use other sane defaults (e.g. openntpd vs xntpd, opensmtpd, ipfw)
• Figure out a different way to query the hardware without dmidecode
• Remove default values from configuration files (/boot/loader.conf, /etc/sysctl.conf, /etc/rc.conf) that way the defaults can be adjusted over time and users inherit new defaults.
• Add a user's preferred username to config.yml
• Make sure the user's preferred username is a part of the video group.

Desired Structure

1. roles/laptop-*/meta/main.yml has dependencies that pull in the pre-requisite roles necessary to enable laptop-*. laptop-* passes the necessary parameters down to dependency ports.
2. Each of the roles pulled in from laptop-* and configure a sane set of defaults according to config.yml and the hardware contained within laptop-*. If a default value is found in a config file, automatically remove the default value to allow configs to progress based on current, best advice.