boldfield / base-mac-os-chef

A Chef cookbook to configure as much of my OS X dev box as possible

My Dev Machine Cookbook

A Chef cookbook to do as much configuring of a clean dev box as possible.

Requirements

This cookbook consumes a whole mess of other ones. Check metadata.rb for details.

To Do

I use many apps that either need cookbooks or have cookbooks that need updates to work on OS X:

• Evernote
• MacVim
• Vagrant
• Atom
• Audacity
• CoconutBattery
• Colloquy
• Cyberduck
• Dash
• Epic Games Launcher (Unreal Engine)
• FaxFresh
• GarageBand
• GIFBrewery
• GitHub (app)
• Graphviz
• Growl
• Handbrake
• iMovie
• Induction (DB GUI)
• LibreOffice
• MarkdownPro
• MS Office
• MusicBrainz Picard
• Netgear USB Control Center
• OpenEmu
• Postgres.app
• Read Later
• Reggy
• Slack
• Sococo
• Stickies
• Textual
• Unity
• Vagrant Manager
• Vessel (http://awvessel.github.io)
• WiFi Explorer
• jexplorer

Some apps do have cookbooks I just need to verify:

• Alfred 2
• 1Password
• Chrome
• Adium
• Virtualbox
• Docker
• Firefox
• XCode

Usage

Set up the node['mac_app_store']['username'] and node['mac_app_store']['password'] attributes needed for the mac-app-store cookbook and add the default recipe to your run_list.

• Install OS X from a USB key
• Walk through the initial setup
  • Apple ID
  • Location services
  • Wi-fi setup
• Enable any auto-imported email/Facebook/Twitter accounts
• Download and install the Chef-DK
• Drop off the validator key in /etc/chef/validation.pem
• Drop off a /etc/chef/client.rb:

chef_server_url 'https://api.chef.io/organizations/roboticcheese'
validation_client_name 'roboticcheese-validator'
use_policyfile true
policy_group 'dev'
policy_name 'dev-machine'

• Run Chef:

sudo chef-client

Recipes

default

• Configures the Mac App Store
• Installs a bunch of App Store apps
  • Microsoft Remote Desktop
  • Tweetbot

Attributes

default

Resources

my_dev_machine

TODO: Describe each included resource.

Syntax:

my_dev_machine 'my_resource' do
    attribute1 'value1'
    action :create
end

Actions:

Action	Description
action1	Do something

Attributes:

Attribute	Default	Description
attribute1	'some_value'	Do something
action	:create	Action(s) to perform

Providers

TODO: Describe each included provider

Chef::Provider::SomeProvider

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Add tests for the new feature; ensure they pass (rake)
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create a new Pull Request

License & Authors

• Author: Jonathan Hartman [e-mail]

Copyright 2015 Jonathan Hartman

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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