This playbook installs and configures most of the software I use on my Mac for web and software development. Some things in macOS are difficult to automate (notably, the Mac App Store and certain tools from Apple), so I still have some manual installation steps, but at least it's all documented here.
This is a work in progress, and is mostly a means for me to document my current Mac's setup. I'll be adding settings and packages to this set of playbooks over time.
See also:
- Battleschool
- osxc
- MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks (the original inspiration for this project)
- Install Ansible.
- Ensure Apple's command line tools are installed (
xcode-select --install
to launch the installer). - Clone this repository to your local drive.
- Run
$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
inside this directory to install required Ansible roles. - Run
ansible-playbook main.yml -i inventory -K
inside this directory. Enter your account password when prompted.
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.
Not everyone's development environment and preferred software configuration is the same.
You can override any of the defaults configured in default.config.yml
by creating a config.yml
file and setting the overrides in that file (e.g. create a customized list of homebrew_installed_packages
).
Applications (installed with Homebrew Cask):
- Docker
- Dropbox
- Fing
- Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Handbrake
- Homebrew
- KDiff3
- LICEcap
- LimeChat
- MacVim
- Menu Meters (Note: Currently using this fork for compatibility)
- nvALT
- Sequel Pro (MySQL client)
- Skype
- Skitch
- Slack
- Sublime Text
- Transmit (S/FTP client)
- Vagrant
- VirtualBox
- VLC
Packages (installed with Homebrew):
- autoconf
- bash-completion
- doxygen
- gettext
- git
- go
- gpg
- hub
- httpie
- iperf
- libdvdcss
- libevent
- packer
- python
- sqlite
- mcrypt
- mysql
- npm
- nvm
- php70
- php70-mcrypt
- php70-xdebug
- ssh-copy-id
- cowsay
- readline
- subversion
- openssl
- pv
- drush
- wget
- wrk
My dotfiles are also installed into the current user's home directory, including the .osx
dotfile for configuring many aspects of macOS for better performance and ease of use.
Finally, there are a few other preferences and settings added on for various apps and services.
It's my hope that I can get the rest of these things wrapped up into Ansible playbooks soon, but for now, these steps need to be completed manually (assuming you already have Xcode and Ansible installed, and have run this playbook).
- Set JJG-Term as the default Terminal theme (it's installed, but not set as default automatically).
- Install Sublime Package Manager.
- Install all the Mac App Store Apps (see below).
- Install all the apps that aren't yet in this setup (see below).
- Remap Caps Lock to Escape (requires macOS Sierra 10.12.1+).
- Set trackpad tracking rate.
- Set mouse tracking rate.
- Configure extra Mail and/or Calendar accounts (e.g. Google, Exchange, etc.).
These are mostly direct download links, some are more difficult to install because of custom installers or other nonstandard install quirks:
- I have vim configuration in the repo, but I still need to add the actual installation:
mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload mkdir -p ~/.vim/bundle cd ~/.vim/autoload curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/master/autoload/pathogen.vim > pathogen.vim cd ~/.vim/bundle git clone git://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git
I also use the following apps at least once or twice per week, but the Mac App Store is harder to control via CLI, so for now I have to manually install all of these apps from within the App Store application (see Issue #11).
- Tweetbot
- RadarScope
- Pixelmator
- Quick Resizer
- 1Password
- DaisyDisk
- Byword
- Aperture
- Pages
- Keynote
- Numbers
Many people have asked me if I often wipe my entire workstation and start from scratch just to test changes to the playbook. Nope! Instead, I posted instructions for how I build a Mac OS X VirtualBox VM, on which I can continually run and re-run this playbook to test changes and make sure things work correctly.
Additionally, this project is continuously tested on Travis CI's macOS infrastructure.
Check out Ansible for DevOps, which teaches you how to automate almost anything with Ansible.
Jeff Geerling, 2014 (originally inspired by MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks).