Role Name

A role to bootstrap fresh install of Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi 4 board. Multiple functionalities can be enabled such as but not limited to:

• Insallation of arbitrary list of packages
• Cloning of dotfiles repo
• Cloning of other repo such as media center project
• Docker installation
• Desktop environment installation
• VNC server installation
• Tailscale VPN setup and node registration
• Setup of zRAM SWAP
• root disk TRIM
• Borgmatic backup to Borgbase repo
• and more

Get from Ansible Galaxy: https://galaxy.ansible.com/pentago/rpi_bootstrap_ansible_role

Example Playbook

- name: Bootstrap Raspberry Pi 4
  hosts: rpi
  become: true
  become_flags: -E
  gather_facts: false
  roles:
    - pentago.rpi_bootstrap_ansible_role

  vars:

    # Setup Host
    hostname: rpi
    locale: en_US.UTF-8
    timezone: Europe/Belgrade
    ntp_server: time.cloudflare.com
    ubuntu_dist: jammy

    # Setup Mount Points
    root_disk_label: writable
    storage_disk_label: STORAGE-1
    aux_storage_disk_label: STORAGE-2

    # Setup User
    user: ubuntu
    uid: 1000
    password: "some password"
    password_salt: f2tq74rufu5ixnf
    pub_ssh_key: id_ed25519.pub
    dotfiles_repo: git@github.com:user/dotfiles.git
    dotfiles_dir: dotfiles

    # Setup Docker
    setup_docker: true

    # Setup Desktop Environment
    setup_desktop: true
    setup_vnc: true
    vnc_session: gnome-session
    vnc_geometry: 1680x1050
    vnc_depth: 32
    vnc_passwd: "somepass"

    # Setup zRAM
    setup_zram: true
    zram_algo: zstd
    zram_percent: "50"
    zram_priority: "100"

    # Setup Tailscale
    setup_tailscale: true
    tailscale_auth_key: "tskey-kzg9gk6CTRLA-bQSgMdPPdZgxu1FECiNCo5"

    # Setup Git Repos
    project_repo: git@github.com:user/media-center.git
    project_data_dir: /data
    project_storage_dir: /storage-1
    aux_storage_dir: /storage-2

    # Setup Borgmatic
    setup_borgmatic: true
    borgbase_passphrase: "some passphrase"
    borgbase_user: repouser
    borgbase_repo: repouser.repo.borgbase.com
    borgbase_ssh_key: borgbase.key
    borgbase_healthcheck_url: https://hc-ping.com/27121397-a6d8-09ba-81b4-1f7770f887f9

    # Setup SSD TRIM
    # https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/enabling-trim-on-external-ssd-on-raspberry-pi
    setup_trim: true

    # Setup Packages
    install_packages:
      - zsh
      - tmux
      - neovim
      - fzf
      - git
      - htop
      - exfat-fuse
      - exfatprogs
      - ncdu
      - ranger
      - rsync
      - iotop
      - localepurge
      - dphys-swapfile
      - gnupg
      - lsscsi
      - sg3-utils
      - net-tools
      - parallel
      - python3-llfuse
      - ripgrep
      - sdparm
      - libsensors5

    purge_packages:
      - snapd

    reboot: true

License

MIT