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Ubuntu DevOps Workstation Setup
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Ubuntu for DevOps and SRE Work

Remove CDROM from Soures

sudo sed -i '/cdrom/d' /etc/apt/sources.list

Quick and Dirty SSH Server

I'd certainly recommend moving to keys over passwords, but for now, it'll do...

sudo apt-get install -y openssh-server
sudo cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.factory-defaults
sudo chmod a-w /etc/ssh/sshd_config.factory-defaults
sudo restart ssh

Ubuntu Essentials

A (very) opinionated list of packages that are a must on every Ubuntu box you'll use for Rails or Mean stack development and Chef, Ansible, Puppet work.

Apt Fun

First, let's run an apt-get update: sudo apt-get update -qq

Then we're on to the packages: sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload vim vagrant virtualbox chef puppet ansible tmux mussh multitail mc iptraf netcat links mutt zsh fish jmeter iperf iotop htop traceroute nmap docker ruby python python-pip git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev git build-essential openssl pkg-config nodejs npm -y

AWS CLI

sudo pip install awscli

Fiddly Rails Things

cd ~
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL
git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv-gem-rehash.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/rbenv-gem-rehash
rbenv install 2.2.2
rbenv global 2.2.2
echo "gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc" > ~/.gemrc
gem install bundler rails:4.2.1
rbenv rehash

And the MEAN Things

sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
sudo npm install -g bower grunt-cli
git clone https://github.com/meanjs/mean.git /opt/mean
cd /opt/mean
sudo npm install
cd ~
sudo npm install -g yo

Docker, Vagrant Stuff

Install Packer

mkdir packer
cd packer
wget https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/packer/packer_0.8.6_linux_amd64.zip
unzip packer_0.8.6_linux_amd64.zip

Databases

You'll probably want some database clients and servers installed (but not running) when doing dev work.

PostgreSQL

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ precise-pgdg main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list"
wget --quiet -O - http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y postgresql-common postgresql-9.3 libpq-dev

MySQL

sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev mysql-workbench

SQLite

sudo apt-get install -y libsqlite3-dev sqlite3

MongoDB

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10
echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

The Fun Stuff

These aren't needed, at all, and are more for personal use than anything else (though I have a feeling some might be of use to others).

Steam

sudo apt-get install steam
cd ~/.local/share/Steam/skins/
git clone https://github.com/DirtDiglett/Pressure-for-Steam.git
cd ~

Spotify

sudo apt-add-repository -y "deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free"
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys D2C19886
sudo apt-get update -qq
sudo apt-get install spotify-client

Sublime Text 3 Installation

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3
sudo apt-get update -qq
sudo apt-get install -y sublime-text-installer

Then press "ctrl+`" and paste the following:

import urllib.request,os,hashlib; h = 'eb2297e1a458f27d836c04bb0cbaf282' + 'd0e7a3098092775ccb37ca9d6b2e4b7d'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://packagecontrol.io/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h)) if dh != h else open(os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by)

And hit enter

Chrome

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg –I google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Oh My ZSH!

curl -L https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh | sh

Oh my Fish!

curl -L git.io/omf | sh

PhantomJS

sudo npm install phantomjs

Cyberduck

echo -e "deb https://s3.amazonaws.com/repo.deb.cyberduck.io stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys FE7097963FEFBE72
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y duck

HipChat

sudo su
echo "deb http://downloads.hipchat.com/linux/apt stable main" > \
  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/atlassian-hipchat.list
wget -O - https://www.hipchat.com/keys/hipchat-linux.key | apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-get install -y hipchat

Vundle VIM Plugin Manager

git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
cat << EOF > ~/.vimrc
set nocompatible              " be iMproved, required
filetype off                  " required

" set the runtime path to include Vundle and initialize
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()
" alternatively, pass a path where Vundle should install plugins
"call vundle#begin('~/some/path/here')

" let Vundle manage Vundle, required
Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'

" The following are examples of different formats supported.
" Keep Plugin commands between vundle#begin/end.
" plugin on GitHub repo
Plugin 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
" plugin from http://vim-scripts.org/vim/scripts.html
Plugin 'L9'
" Git plugin not hosted on GitHub
Plugin 'git://git.wincent.com/command-t.git'
" git repos on your local machine (i.e. when working on your own plugin)
Plugin 'file:///home/gmarik/path/to/plugin'
" The sparkup vim script is in a subdirectory of this repo called vim.
" Pass the path to set the runtimepath properly.
Plugin 'rstacruz/sparkup', {'rtp': 'vim/'}
" Avoid a name conflict with L9
Plugin 'user/L9', {'name': 'newL9'}

" All of your Plugins must be added before the following line
call vundle#end()            " required
filetype plugin indent on    " required
" To ignore plugin indent changes, instead use:
"filetype plugin on
"
" Brief help
" :PluginList       - lists configured plugins
" :PluginInstall    - installs plugins; append `!` to update or just :PluginUpdate
" :PluginSearch foo - searches for foo; append `!` to refresh local cache
" :PluginClean      - confirms removal of unused plugins; append `!` to auto-approve removal
"
" see :h vundle for more details or wiki for FAQ
" Put your non-Plugin stuff after this line
EOF
vim +PluginInstall +qall

Telegram

sudo mkdir /opt/telegram && curl https://updates.tdesktop.com/tlinux/tsetup.0.8.52.tar.xz | tar -xf- -C /opt/telegram

HiDPI Fixes

You'll need to do a few things in order to make sure the display is scaled properly.

First, in Ubuntu:

apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
gnome-tweak-tool

Navigate to the "Windows" section, and set the HiDPI Window Scaling to something larger than one. I've used "2" for monitors with 1800 vertical pixels.

For Chrome: This is actually now fixed, though previously the "--force-device-scale-factor=2" launch option was required.

For Firefox: Navigate to "about:config" Set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to "2"

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