MonakhOS: My general workstation environment

Code name given on 2024-05-16 : "MonakhOS"

Architecture:

• Sway
• Support of dots file repository
• A single venv in dots containing all utilities and libs

Getting started with a VM (qemu)

Cd in sandbox_vms/vm1

Create the QCow base image.

../../ansible/run_ansible_playbook.sh base.img

Run the image, use remmina to install with archinstall.

With Archinstall add:

• desktop profile
  • sway
  • ly greeter
• networkmanager

Create snapshot to be able to quickly restart the ansible script with a clean image

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b base.img -F qcow2 after_arch_install.img

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b after_arch_install.img -F qcow2 after_ssh_init.img

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b after_ssh_init.img -F qcow2 ready_for_ansible.img

Steps to install

• find a new name for the device eg. blackjack
• install with archinstall to initialize the computer
  • use the profiles defined in archinstall_configs
• connect to the internet
• enable an ssh server to access it from the ansible runner host
• on the host, generate a private ssh key
• add the public key on the target host
• create a target directory in target directory
• configure vars.yaml, see example vars file
• create on the host, the private ssh key that will be installed on target
• add this sshkey to your forge that host your dots file, eg. forge.lefuturiste.fr

Generate a unprotected default ssh key

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "mbess@blackjack"

no passphrase

ECDSA-SK, Ed25519 and Ed25519-SK keys have a fixed length and the -b flag will be ignored.

Configure ~/.ssh/config

# set as default
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/unprotected_ed25519

Host *
    ServerAliveInterval 40

Host forge.lefuturiste.fr
    user git
    IdentitiesOnly yes
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/unprotected_ed25519

Host aur.archlinux.org
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_aur
    User aur

Pacman packages

defined in dots file

arch_packages.yaml

categories: commons, work

Sway

swayidle

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68694093/how-to-prevent-swayidle-from-execution-while-watching-a-film

Greeter

Ly is a TUI greeter, it will show a terminal based login prompt

https://github.com/fairyglade/ly

Ansible

auto run archinstall with ansible

• question: how to overwrite the drive config and set it to auto ?

https://archinstall.archlinux.page/

Known issues

SSH known hosts

You need to keep updated the known hosts in your profiles to not have this info erased each time you play the ansible book.

Pistes

• https://github.com/id101010/ansible-archlinux
• https://github.com/kewlfft/ansible-aur