# -*- ii: ii; -*- #+TITLE: Windows Subsystem for Linux Setup #+AUTHOR: James Blair #+EMAIL: mail@jamesblair.net #+DATE: <2020-09-26 Sat 08:20> This guide will walk through setting up [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux][Windows Subsystem for Linux]] on Windows 10. This particular setup contains my opinionated view of a good foundation and layers on some pairing and development orientated tooling over top. *Caveats:* Please note this guide is written for the [[https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NBLGGH4MSV6][Ubuntu WSL distribution]. *Acknowledgements:* Large elements of this wsl setup came about through collaboration with the great people at [[https://ii.coop][ii.coop]]. I encourage you to explore and contribute to their work on [[https://gitlab.ii.coop][gitlab]] as many elements form a core part of this setup and workflow. ** Step 1 - Setup home folder structure After installing the Debian WSL distribution no folders are present in your home folder. In this section we create some quick standard folders to keep our home folder somewhat organised. #+NAME: Setup home folder strucuture #+BEGIN_SRC shell # Ensure we are in our home folder cd ~/ # Create a documents folder for our git repositories mkdir Documents # Create a downloads folder for temporary objects mkdir Downloads #+END_SRC ** Step 2 - Update and install packages To get started we ensure the package manager is up to date. #+NAME: Update system packages #+BEGIN_SRC shell sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade #+END_SRC Next we install a series of standard packages that form part of our workflow or are dependencies for other tools in our environment. #+NAME: Install standard packages #+BEGIN_SRC shell sudo apt-get install -y git locales curl wget xclip xsel tmux tmate net-tools less wget htop screenfetch zip openssh-client dictd knockd python3-pip emacs apt-transport-https software-properties-common ca-certificates dirmngr xterm xtermcontrol #+END_SRC We use [[https://docker.io][docker]] to run containers or kind (kubernetes in docker) locally. #+NAME: Install docker #+begin_src shell # Download and add Docker's official public PGP key. curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add - # Add the `stable` channel's Docker upstream repository. sudo add-apt-repository \ "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \ $(lsb_release -cs) \ stable" # Update the apt package list and install docker packages. sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io # Allow your user to access the Docker CLI without needing root access. sudo usermod -aG docker $USER # Ensure the docker service is started sudo service docker start #+end_src For additional package management namely ~bitwarden~ we use [[https://www.npmjs.com/][node package manager]]. The code below installs node ~12~. #+NAME: Install node #+BEGIN_SRC shell # Curl down the shell script for adding version 12 of nodejs to apt sudo curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo bash - # Install the nodejs package via apt sudo apt-get install -y nodejs #+END_SRC For managing secrets we use [[https://bitwarden.com/][bitwarden]] which provides a great [[https://github.com/bitwarden/cli][cli utility]]. This section should be expanded in future to cover setting alias for common bitwarden tasks. #+NAME: Install bitwarden and login #+BEGIN_SRC shell # Install the bitwarden cli via node package manager sudo npm install -g @bitwarden/cli # Test login to bitwarden bw login mail@jamesblair.net #+END_SRC For working with google cloud platform we use the [[https://cloud.google.com/sdk/][GCP SDK]], which provides our cli tools. #+NAME: Install google cloud sdk #+BEGIN_SRC shell # Download the sdk archive curl -o gcpsdk.tar -O https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-sdk-311.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz # Extract to a folder in path sudo tar xvf gcpsdk.tar -C /usr/local/ # Correct folder permissions sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /usr/local/google-cloud-sdk # Run the install script /usr/local/google-cloud-sdk/install.sh #+END_SRC For working with [[https://aws.com][Amazon Web Services]] we need the [[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2-linux.html][AWS CLI]]. #+NAME: Install amazon web services cli #+BEGIN_SRC shell # Download the binary cd ~/Downloads/ curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" # Install unzip awscliv2.zip sudo ./aws/install # Clean up rm -rf ~/Downloads/aws* #+END_SRC For cloud infrastructure deployments we use [[https://www.terraform.io/][terraforms]]. #+NAME: Install hashicorp terraforms #+BEGIN_SRC shell # Download the binary wget 'https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.24/terraform_0.12.24_linux_amd64.zip' # Unzip it unzip *.zip # Move the binary to path sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/ # Clean up rm *amd64.zip #+END_SRC For ad-hoc system administration we use [[https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x ][ansible]]. We install ansible via ~pip~ to ensure any modules or additional packages required at a later date can be easily managed. For significant ansible or python projects a virtual environment for python is suggested to keep project packages separate from system python packages. #+NAME: Install ansible via pip #+BEGIN_SRC shell pip3 install ansible #+END_SRC ** Step 3 - Setup environment dotfiles Within wsl we can use .dotfiles to further customise our environment. The script below restores my versions of key dotfiles automatically. *Note:* The git clone below relies on having permission to clone the repository referenced. For me this means having an ssh key present which has been added to gitlab. *** Obtain ssh keys from bitwarden In order to be able to clone the repository in the next step we need to obtain our ssh keys from bitwarden. Given we have installed the bitwarden cli we can mostly automte this process minus the initial login to bitwarden. #+NAME: Obtain ssh keys from bitwarden #+begin_src shell # Ensure we have an ssh-agent running eval `ssh-agent` # Generate a new blank key to overwrite ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/james -q -P "" # Ensure we have an active bitwarden session export BW_SESSION=$(bw unlock --raw > ~/.bw_session && cat ~/.bw_session) # Export both keys export key=$(bw get item desktop --pretty | grep notes) # Extract private key export private=${key:12} export private=${private/END RSA*/END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----} echo $private | awk '{gsub(/\\n/,"\n")}1' > ~/.ssh/james # Extract public key export public=${key/*ssh-rsa/ssh-rsa} && echo ${public::-2} | awk '{gsub(/\\n/,"\n")}1' > ~/.ssh/james.pub #+end_src *** Clone and restore dotfiles Once our keys are available to us we can clone down our dotfiles and get back to our comfortable normal terminal environment. #+NAME: Clone and restore the dotfiles #+BEGIN_SRC shell # Remove the interactive host prompt ssh-keyscan -p 2224 gitlab.jamma.life >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts # Clone down this repository git clone ssh://git@gitlab.jamma.life:2224/jmhbnz/tooling.git ~/Documents/tooling/ # Restore all dotfiles cp ~/Documents/tooling/.* ~/ # Reload bashrc with updated version source ~/.bashrc #+END_SRC ** Step 4 - Install humacs editor An integral part of our pair development workflow is [[https://github.com/humacs/humacs][humacs]]. Below are the instructions to install this directly in WSL, note there are other options to install in the documentation linked above. #+NAME: Install and configure humacs #+BEGIN_SRC shell # Clone down humacs git clone --recursive https://github.com/humacs/humacs /home/$USER/Downloads/ # Need to ensure environment variables are set for load path export EMACSLOADPATH=/home/$USER/Downloads/humacs #+END_SRC ** Step 5 - Setup mutt email client For reading email we ideally use a cli based client for fast searching and lightweight mail reading. The [[https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/][mutt]] mail client fills these roles well for imap mailboxes. The first step to setup mutt is to ensure it is installed. #+NAME: Install mutt #+BEGIN_SRC tmate sudo apt-get install -y mutt urlscan #+END_SRC After installing mutt we then need to create configuration directories and files. #+NAME: Create mutt config files #+BEGIN_SRC tmate mkdir -p ~/.mutt/cache/headers mkdir ~/.mutt/cache/bodies touch ~/.mutt/certificates #+END_SRC One configuration folders and files exist we just need to populate our user mutt configuration file with a configuration for our particular mail provider. The example provided in this repository utilises the ~bitwarden~ cli utility for secrets to ensure these are securely gathered at runtime and not stored in the file.