Mac Development Ansible Playbook
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.
See also:
- Boxen
- Battleschool
- osxc
- MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks (the original inspiration for this project)
Installation
- Ensure Apple's command line tools are installed (
xcode-select --install
to launch the installer). - Install Ansible.
- 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.
Running a specific set of tagged tasks
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"
Overriding Defaults
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.
Included Applications
Applications (installed with Homebrew Cask):
- ChromeDriver
- Cyberduck
- Firefox
- Google Chrome
- iTerm2
- PHP Storm
- Postman
- Homebrew
- Sequel Pro (MySQL client)
- Slack
- Sonos
- Sourcetree
- Spectacle
- Sublime Text
- Vagrant
- VirtualBox
Packages (installed with Homebrew):
- autoconf
- bash-completion
- composer
- cowsay
- git
- node
- npm
- nvm
- ssh-copy-id
- yarn
- wget
Author
Jeff Geerling, 2014 (originally inspired by MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks).