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How to fully automate Fedora Silverblue setup/configuration? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by wolf to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] wolf 3 points 1 year ago

It seems mostly a lack of understanding on my part.

I have a quite customized Debian setup (Ansible script grown over 10 years now), much more elaborate than just installing a handful of packages from the default repositories. With Ansible, I figured out how automate all but everything, setting up one of my desktops is typing one command, getting a coffee and stuff just works.

For Silverblue now, it looks like the way to configure/use it is a mix of rpm-ostree, overlays, installing applications into toolbox containers (and moving their desktop files to the host system) ... in theory, it sounds like a very nice separation/clean, in practice it sounds like a lot of work to arrive where I am right now with Debian.

So... my big question: Has anyone using Silverblue an elaborate custom setup and an easy way to automate it to create cattle... or is Silverblue more like a pet thingy.