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wolf Oct 18, 2023

How to fully automate Fedora Silverblue setup/configuration?

How to fully automate Fedora Silverblue setup/configuration? - Lemmy.zip

At the moment I am using Debian Bookworm and I can setup/configure 100% of my setup automatically everything via Ansible. (Only thing left after the Ansible script is login to my online accounts/email which I would rather not automate.) Is there a way/does anyone have this working/running on Silverblue? To be more concrete: After I install Silverblue with default settings, I want to automatically install all needed flatpaks, configure them (and link configuration files to a github repository) and also setup some toolboxes for development. With one command/step, like running Ansible.

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alternateved Oct 18, 2023

Check ublue approach like for example in this repo: github.com/ublue-os/beyond

In other words, leverage native OCI containers.

GitHub - ublue-os/beyond: Cassidy’s playground for GNOME experiments

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wolf Oct 18, 2023

Thank you, looks very interesting.

According to the readme one has to login and issue commands at the shell - is there a way to use a kickstart file/some kind of provisioning tool like Ansible with native support for rpm-ostree?

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j0rge Oct 18, 2023

Yeah, look at the examples here: https://github.com/coreos/layering-examples for an ansible example.

Though some modules don't work (the flatpak one doesn't work unfortunately). This is also useful: https://github.com/j1mc/ansible-silverblue

Hope it helps!

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wolf Oct 18, 2023

Thanks a lot, will check your links tonight. I’ll try to wrap my head around why Ansible doesn’t work OOTB, given Red Hats involvement with Fedora and Ansible. Am I the only who tries to use Silverblue as cattle instead of a desktop pet?!

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j0rge

The OCI features are pretty new (they won't hit Fedora until F40) so there's catching up to do still. They'll get there at some point, there's just a vast amount of existing work out there that they need to account for.