This playbook installs and configures most of the software I use on my Mac for web and software development. Some things in macOS are slightly difficult to automate, 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 evolving this set of playbooks over time.

1. Ensure Apple's command line tools are installed (xcode-select --install to launch the installer).
2. Install pyenv, pipsi, etc ...
3. Install Ansible via pipsi.
4. Clone this repository to your local drive.
5. Run $ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml inside this directory to install required Ansible roles.
6. 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.

You can filter which part of the provisioning process to run by specifying a set of tags using ansible-playbook's --tags flag. The tags available are dotfiles, homebrew, mas, extra-packages and osx.

ansible-playbook main.yml -i inventory -K --tags "dotfiles,homebrew"

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. For example, you can customize the installed packages and apps with something like:

homebrew_installed_packages:
  - cowsay
  - git
  - go

mas_installed_apps:
  - { id: 443987910, name: "1Password" }
  - { id: 498486288, name: "Quick Resizer" }
  - { id: 557168941, name: "Tweetbot" }
  - { id: 497799835, name: "Xcode" }

composer_packages:
  - name: hirak/prestissimo
  - name: drush/drush
    version: '^8.1'

gem_packages:
  - name: bundler
    state: latest

npm_packages:
  - name: webpack

pip_packages:
  - name: mkdocs

Any variable can be overridden in config.yml; see the supporting roles' documentation for a complete list of available variables.

Applications (installed with Homebrew Cask):

• Dropbox
• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Handbrake
• Homebrew
• LICEcap
• LimeChat
• MacVim
• nvALT
• Slack
• Sublime Text
• Transmit (S/FTP client)
• Vagrant
• VirtualBox
• Atom
• VLC

Packages (installed with Homebrew):

• autoconf
• bash-completion
• chromedriver
• doxygen
• gettext
• gifsicle
• git
• gpg
• hub
• iperf
• libevent
• mcrypt
• nmap
• node
• nvm
• ssh-copy-id
• readline
• openssl
• pv
• wget
• wrk
• zlib
• jpeg
• libpng
• libyaml

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).

1. Install Sublime Package Manager.
2. Install all the apps that aren't yet in this setup (see below).
3. Remap Caps Lock to Escape (requires macOS Sierra 10.12.1+).
4. Set trackpad tracking rate.
5. Set mouse tracking rate.
6. Configure extra Mail and/or Calendar accounts (e.g. Google, Exchange, etc.).
7. Install Docker
8. Install Drone CLI
9. Install go with cross-compile action: brew install go --cross-compile-common
10. Install vim: brew install vim --with-python --with-ruby --with-perl
11. mac tilling
12. https://github.com/arialdomartini/oh-my-git
13. https://github.com/twolfson/sexy-bash-prompt
14. Just use https://gist.github.com/kevin-smets/8568070
15. https://rick.cogley.info/post/use-homebrew-zsh-instead-of-the-osx-default/

These are mostly direct download links, some are more difficult to install because of custom installers or other nonstandard install quirks:

• iShowU HD
• BitBar
• iTerm2
• Hyper -> https://justinzimmerman.net/post/switching-from-iterm-to-hyperterm/
• PowerlineGo -> https://github.com/justjanne/powerline-go

• I have vim configuration in the repo, but I still need to add the actual installation:

  mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload
  git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
  

• Configure go -> https://mnafian.github.io/2016/10/26/Install-Go-by-Homebrew-OSX.html
• https://gauravsohoni.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/mac-os-install-golang-with-homebrew/

Tweak macOS settings like:

• https://blog.vandenbrand.org/2016/01/04/how-to-automate-your-mac-os-x-setup-with-ansible/
• https://github.com/geerlingguy/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
• Use Dracule iterm2 theme -> https://draculatheme.com/

This is forked from

Jeff Geerling, 2014 (originally inspired by MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks).