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.
Have you looked into NixOS instead of silverblue?
Came here to say this. NixOS does exactly what you want built in and has a lot of the same advantages as silverblue
Reusing my other answer: Thanks, I am mostly motivated by having less work using an immutable operating system. ;-)
To elaborate more: By now I want an OS that is stable, has updates automatically in the background and just a reboot away. NiXOS sounds like too much work for too little benefit for my current usage/use cases.
If your not scared of poor documentation, a born tinkerer, and have a lot of time on your hands, you should try Nix
Definitely OT, but at this point you may want to checkout NixOS.
Maybe I don’t understand the question, but what prevents you from adapting your Ansible playbooks to Fedora Silverblue? I assume for Debian at some point you have a “install packages” section which you should rewrite to use rpm-ostree or flatpak instead of apt-get; your dotfiles section should remain the same etc etc.
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.
