phurni / mac-dev-setup

Automated installation and configuration for my macOS dev machine

mac-dev-setup

This script and playbook installs and configures most of the software I use on my Mac for web and software development.

Credits

The material you'll find here is a mix from my own production and the ones found in these sources:

• https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
• https://github.com/axinorm/macbook-setup
• https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

How to run

bootstraping

You have to run the bootstrap_ansible script found here to install a minimum setup that may run ansible.

If your current macOS setup doesn't have git, get and run the script like this (skip if you have git):

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/phurni/mac-dev-setup/master/bootstrap_ansible
sh bootstrap_ansible

Having git, clone the repo and run the script:

cd ~ && git clone https://github.com/phurni/mac-dev-setup.git && cd mac-dev-setup
./bootstrap_ansible

playbook

All other software installs and configuration is done through the ansible playbook main.yml. Modify this file at your discretion to choose what to do and with which data.

After each change to the main.yml file, run:

cd ~/mac-dev-setup
ansible-playbook main.yml

Manual steps

Usually there's no need for manual steps before running the scripts.

However you'll find below usefull steps listed as a reminder.

Hostname

If you didn't choose a correct name for your computer when installing, open a terminal and run this to update it (replace choose_your_machine_name with your wish):

NEW_HOSTNAME=choose_your_machine_name
scutil --set HostName $NEW_HOSTNAME
scutil --set LocalHostName $NEW_HOSTNAME
scutil --set ComputerName $NEW_HOSTNAME
dscacheutil -flushcache