This Ansible playbook will set up a basic Fedora workstation with the packages and configs that I need. This is mostly geared towards setting up the system with a gaming focus. Options to install Steam, Mangohud, Heroic Games Launcher, OBS, etc. are included. All options in the main setup-workstation.yml file are simple True/False toggles. Choose which options you want and set them to True, then save the file and then run the playbook with Ansible.
NOTE: This has only been tested against Fedora Workstation KDE 37, 38, 39, and 40
NOTE: This playbook is configured to run against the local host.
- Ansible Control System Requirements
- A Fedora system with the
ansibleandgitpackages installed. - Sudo permissions to run this playbook locally
- In order to run this playbook, Ansible needs to be installed from the package repos:
sudo dnf install ansible- On your local system with ansible and git installed, clone this git repo.
First, take a look at the setup-workstation.yml file. This file contains all of the options for this playbook. Pick and choose the things that you would like to enable before running the playbook. Most options are a simple "True" or "False" selection.
- It's a good idea to run a dry-run check before you actually run the playbook to make changes to your system. To perform a dry-run, run the following command:
ansible-playbook setup-workstation.yml --checkNOTE: You will be asked for your your sudo password since this playbook needs root privileges for various tasks.
- If there are no failures and you want to run it for real, just remove the
--checkfrom the end of the command:
ansible-playbook setup-workstation.yml- For verbose output, you can add up to 4 v's to the end of the command, like so:
ansible-playbook setup-workstation.yml -vvvv