MarkusSagen / ansible-desktop

ansible-desktop

Pre-requisites

1. If on Mac, install Homebrew and Ansible
2. Install packages for your distro with:

Mac:

# TODO: might not work if having multiple files  
ansible-pull -U https://github.com/MarkusSagen/ansible-desktop.git   

3. Or clone the repo and do the installation manually:

ansible-playbook -i inventory playbooks/homebrew.yml

# To install specific target and tasks
ansible-playbook playbooks/homebrew.yml --limit=my.laptop --tags=packages

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Setting up the script

The instructions and inspiration for this is taken from:

• https://opensource.com/article/22/6/install-software-macos-ansible-homebrew
• https://github.com/ruanbekker/ansible-macbook-setup

1. Install ansible

# pip install ansible==4.9.0
brew install ansible  

2. Run this in your terminal

cat << EOF >> inventory
[localhost\]
your-host-name
EOF

3. Create a ansible playbook