Prepare a new workstation for DevOps infra administration

About

This bash script prepares a (fresh) Linux installation for being used in a DevOps environment for administrative purposes

The following will be set up:

Packages

• git
• openssh
• openssh-clients
• vim
• wget
• curl
• ansible
• pip

Cloud clients

• aws-cli
• azure-cli

Container related (binaries)

• kubectl
• openshift client (oc)
• docker (only cli client)

VMware API

• pyvmomi

Further config

• vim is set as alias for vi
• vim displays line numbers
• a directory is created in the user home dir (for local binaries like pip or oc)

Supported Linux systems (Still testing)

• RHEL 7.5
• CentOS 7 ✔️
• Fedora 28 ✔️
• Ubuntu 18.04 ✔️
• Debian 9.5 ✔️

Note: This script may work for other Linux derivatives. Only the above are tested.