bsnux / chef-mint

Chef recipes and scripts for provisioning Linux Mint workstations

Arturo Fernandez

I'm a Software and DevOps Engineer who also write technical books about Linux and programming. I live in the beautiful and sunny city of Los Angeles, CA.

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

LFCS: Linux Foundation Certified Systems Administrator

💪 Values

• Positive Attitude
• Self-motivation
• Honesty
• Grown & Learn

🖥 Programming languages

Infrastructure, cloud, CLI

• Python

Non-blocking, event-driven web services

• Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript

Concurrency, parallelism, CLI

• Go

Everyday scripting

• Python
• Perl
• shell (bash, zsh)

Java interop, Jenkins

• Groovy

📖 My books

• Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide
• iPhone JavaScript Cookbook
• Python 3 al descubierto
• Cámbiate a LINUX

⚡ Fun facts

• First computer: PC 486 DX2 running MS-DOS 6.0 & Red Hat 5.2
• Latest computer: MacBook Air 2019
• Using GNU/Linux since 1996
• Favorite text editors: NeoVim
• Favorite IDE: Neovim, JetBrains
• I have written 4 books and hundred of articles about Linux and programming
• I own 4 Raspberry Pi and 1 BeagleBone board

chef-mint's Issues

SSH directory and key

It would be useful to create a .ssh directory and a key for default user

timetap plugin requires user access

Vim is using timetap plugin and it needs a directory inside home folder for a regular user. However, chef-mint is creating that directory being root owner of it.

Username is not replaced on .bashrc template

After call to chef-solo command, .bashrc template doesn't replace username.

Download ptags.py file

http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Tools/scripts/ptags.py

I cannot find that file on Linux Mint python default installation from packages.

Template for .gitconfig

We can create a template for ~/git.config file, some useful values are the following:

[user]
    name = Arturo Fernandez
    email = [email protected]

[core]
    editor = vim

[color]
    ui = true
    diff = auto
    status = auto

[color "branch"]
  current = yellow reverse
  local = yellow
  remote = green

[color "diff"]
  meta = yellow bold
  frag = magenta bold
  old = red bold
  new = green bold

[color "status"]
  added = yellow
  changed = green
  untracked = cyan

Symbolic link for ack

It could be very useful to make a symlink for ack:

$ sudo ln -s sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ack-grep /usr/bin/ack