Infrastructure as Code.

This project installs and configures Arch Linux or Debian operating systems fully automated.

⚠ This project is in beta state and all scripts referencing hard coded to the dev branch.

Features:

• 💿 Build the installer ISO image in a Docker environment
• 💡 Read hostname and OS type from UEFI variables
• 🔨 Install a minimal Arch Linux OS or Debian OS
• ❓ Decide target disk for installation, etc by hostname
• 🔐 Setup root password, SSH keys and user accounts
• 🚀 Autostart OS configuration at first boot
• 💻 Autostart Desktop configuration at first Desktop logon

Archiso is used as a base. archiso/ contains a Dockerfile and some scripts to build a custom Arch Linux installer iso with additional scripts.

• ./archiso/build.sh builds the container image
• ./archiso/pack.sh runs the container image to build the Arch Linux ISO image

The perrys-bootstrapper.sh script is using UEFI variables to fetch the hostname from the system and use the correct ansible inventory variables.

Set hostname in UEFI variable:

echo -n myhostname > efi-hostname
efivar --name ed38a5bf-1135-4b0f-aa72-49d30b05dfd4-PerryHostname -w -f efi-hostname

Get the hostname from UEFI variable:

cat /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/PerryHostname-ed38a5bf-1135-4b0f-aa72-49d30b05dfd4

In addition the variable PerryFlavor-ed38a5bf-1135-4b0f-aa72-49d30b05dfd4 can be used to set the flavor (debian or archlinux).

• Build the Arch Linux ISO image
• Boot ISO in a virtual machine or on a physical system
• Ensure that the diskdev and bootmode are correct in the inventoy
• Run installer
  • Debian: perrys-bootstrapper.sh --flavor debian
  • Arch Linux: perrys-bootstrapper.sh --flavor archlinux
• Reboot into the new OS

Run perrys-ansible-apply.sh as root.

It pulls automatically the correct playbook from this repo by the hostname of the operating system.

• Bluetooth
• NetworkManager
• NFTables
• Pulseaudio
• Swap File
• Unix Account
• X11
• XFCE
• SSH Daemon config
• Disk Encryption