After a fresh arch installation and before running the playbook, you may follow these steps:

1. Add your non-root user to sudo (wheel) group. This user also will be used as an ansible user.
2. Install dependencies:

   pacman -S openssh python python-pip

3. Enable ssh service:

   systemctl enable sshd

Add the host machine's ssh keys to the destination machine.

ssh-copy-id {{user name}}@{{ ip of the destination machine}}

---
all:
    hosts:
        { { host_address } }:
            ansible_user: { { user_name } }

OR

Recommended for local development

poetry install

Now it is possible to run following commands with poetry run without having to install ansible globally.

Example:

poetry run ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

ansible-playbook -K --inventory inventory.yml install.yml

This updates all the packages installed by playbook.

Such as:

• AUR packages
• pacman packages
• zsh plugins
• pipx packages
• flatpak packages
• mise plugins
• tmux plugins
• npm global plugins
• rust programming language
• nvim packages and tree sitter grammars

ansible-playbook -K --inventory inventory.yml update.yml

ansible-playbook -K --connection local --inventory localhost, update.yml

Installation playbook can be tested locally using docker.

docker build . -t dev_env
docker run --it dev_env

This doesn't include flatpak role due to limitations of docker.