Ansible role for installing Ubuntu Desktop

This role installs Ubuntu Desktop with configuration amenable to use with GPU-enabled cloud instances.

Features:

• installs Ubuntu Desktop
• disables Wayland protocol (needed by NICE-DCV)
• installs Firefox (optional)
• installs desktop background (optional)

Requirements

Provisioning host:

• ansible 2.15 or later

Host that will run docker

• Ubuntu 22.04 or later (or equivalent Debian-based distro running apt)

How to use this role

Add this role to your Ansible playbook file.

- name: install ubuntu desktop
  role: xronos_ubuntu_desktop_ansible

Variables

• ubuntu_desktop_configure_wallpaper (= true): configure Xronos wallpaper and lock screen.
• ubuntu_desktop_install_firefox (= true): install Firefox.