Mac Development Ansible Playbook

Ansible playbook for automating macOS development machine installation.

Uses:

• Ansible
• Homebrew
• homebrew-cask

Inspired by i.a. mac-dev-playbook

Installation

1. Ensure Apple's command line tools are installed (xcode-select --install to launch the installer).
2. Run ./bootstrap.sh to install Homebrew and Ansible
3. Clone or download this repository to your local drive.
4. Run ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml inside this directory to install required Ansible roles.
5. Sign into the Mac App Store via the GUI.
6. Run playbook with ./ansible.sh

Note: If some Homebrew commands fail, you might need to agree to Xcode's license or fix some other Brew issue. Run brew doctor to see if this is the case.

Included Applications

See vars/main.yml

Config

 ~/.gitconfig
[pager]
  diff = diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=1,5 -RFX
  show = diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=1,5 -RFX

Notes

dotfiles

My dotfiles (https://github.com/walokra/dotfiles) are also installed into the current user's home directory under .dotfiles, including the .osx dotfile for configuring Mac OS X for ease of use. To use them, cd into ~/.dotfiles and bash source bootstrap.sh. To set sensible OS X defaults run also bash ./.osx.

Services

• (asimov)[https://github.com/stevegrunwell/asimov]: exclude project dependencies from Time Machine. sudo brew services start asimov