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 a few manual installation steps, but at least it's all documented here.
Installation
-
Ensure Apple's command line tools are installed (
xcode-select --install
to launch the installer). -
- Run the following command to add Python 3 to your $PATH:
export PATH="$HOME/Library/Python/3.9/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH"
- Upgrade Pip:
sudo pip3 install --upgrade pip
- Install Ansible:
pip3 install ansible
- Run the following command to add Python 3 to your $PATH:
-
Clone or download 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 --ask-become-pass
inside this directory. Enter your macOS account password when prompted for the 'BECOME' password.
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 -K --tags "dotfiles,homebrew"
Testing the Playbook
Many people have asked me if I often wipe my entire workstation and start from scratch just to test changes to the playbook. Nope! This project is continuously tested on GitHub Actions' macOS infrastructure.
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Author
This project was created by Javy de Koning, forked from Jeff Geerling.