Spotify¶

Description¶

This Ansible role installs the Spotify desktop client on Arch Linux systems using the AUR (Arch User Repository).

Overview¶

Spotify is a digital music streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs and podcasts. The package batch the constructor runs at deploy start installs the spotify id; meta/packages.yml declares it as an AUR package on Arch Linux and as a deliberate no-op on the Debian and RedHat families, which do not archive the proprietary client.

Architecture¶

ARCHITECTURE.md draws Spotify from its own metadata: the containers it runs under compose, what changes under swarm, how each volume is backed, and every role it depends on or is depended upon by.

Section	Drawn from
Compose	`meta/services.yml`
Swarm	`meta/services.yml` replicas and placement
Volumes	`meta/volumes.yml` against the NFS decision chain
Dependencies	`meta/services.yml` and `meta/main.yml` of every role

Purpose¶

To automate the installation of Spotify on Arch-based systems.

Features¶

🎧 Installs the official Spotify AUR package
🛠 Resolves the package through the registry id spotify in meta/packages.yml

Quick Setup¶

Development¶

Clone, set up the workstation, and deploy Spotify onto the local stack:

git clone https://github.com/infinito-nexus/core.git
cd core
make onboard
make compose-deploy mode=reinstall apps=dsk-spotify full_cycle=false

Production¶

Install Spotify directly onto the target machine: clone the repository, install the OS prerequisites and the repository toolchain, then deploy against localhost over a local connection (no SSH, no container):

git clone https://github.com/infinito-nexus/core.git
cd core
bash scripts/install/package.sh
make install
source scripts/meta/env/load.sh

APP=dsk-spotify
DOMAIN="<your-domain>"
TLS_MODE=self_signed
SSH_PUBLIC_KEY="<your-ssh-public-key>"
INVENTORY=inventories/production
infinito administration inventory provision "$INVENTORY" \
  --inventory-file "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
  --host localhost \
  --include "$APP" \
  --vars "{\"TLS_MODE\": \"$TLS_MODE\", \"DOMAIN_PRIMARY\": \"$DOMAIN\", \"users\": {\"administrator\": {\"authorized_keys\": [\"$SSH_PUBLIC_KEY\"]}}}"
infinito administration deploy dedicated "$INVENTORY/devices.yml" \
  --password-file "$INVENTORY/.password" \
  --diff -vv

Credits¶

Kevin Veen-Birkenbach

Part of the Infinito.Nexus Project and maintained by Kevin Veen-Birkenbach. Licensed under the Infinito.Nexus Community License (Non-Commercial).

That licence covers this role. The software it deploys is a separate grant: LicenseRef-Spotify-EULA, under which commercial use is prohibited. You owe its authors this much: use privately or for education; a commercial deployment needs a separate grant. Permission for one of the two is not permission for the other.

Requirements¶

An Arch Linux based system; package_install sets up the unprivileged AUR build environment itself.