dev-mac

This project uses Ansible to create a ready-to-code macOS box (tested with High Sierra)!

There is no central machine that can talk to all macs. Instead the idea is to run the playbook manually on all machines. New machines can be bootstrapped over ssh with a separate playbook.

Execute the playbook

cd ~/workspace/ansible-dev-mac && ansible-playbook -K --limit $(hostname) dev-mac.yml

Update settings and secrets only

cd ~/workspace/ansible-dev-mac && ansible-playbook -K --limit $(hostname) --tags settings dev-mac.yml

Install Ruby versions and gems only

cd ~/workspace/ansible-dev-mac && ansible-playbook -K --limit $(hostname) --tags ruby dev-mac.yml

Install brew packages and vim plugins

cd ~/workspace/ansible-dev-mac && ansible-playbook -K --limit $(hostname) --tags software dev-mac.yml

Adding hosts

Add the new host to the inventory. You should use whatever hostname returns for your machine as the name in the inventory. Ansible will talk to the host via a local connection. Also make sure to set the osx_hostname variable in the host specific vars files. Otherwise we will set the hostname of the machine to whatever inventory_hostname returns.

Bootstrapping a blank machine

ansible-playbook -k -K -e "bootstrap_ip=10.0.1.24 bootstrap_user=julian osx_hostname=julians-wanelobook" bootstrap.yml

This will install Xcode, Homebrew and Ansible on a blank machine. It also generates ssh keys, clones the Ansible and secrets repos and copies the vault key over to the machine.

You can override the secrets repo that will be used with -e "ansible_repos_credential_repo_url=ssh://[email protected]/jfahrer/ansible-dev-mac-secrets.git" You can set ansible_repos_vault_password_file to use a custom file for the vault password that will transferred to the host.

Manually setting up a new machine

• Install Homebrew /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)

• Install ansible brew install ansible

• Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/jfahrer/ansible-dev-mac

• Clone the secrets repo git clone https://github.com/jfahrer/ansible-dev-mac-secrets

• Setup the vault password cd ansible-dev-mac && echo WHATEVER_THE_VAULT_KEY_IS > vault_password.txt

Manual steps after running the playbook

• Show remaining battery in %
• Set modifier key for caps to control
• Increase key repeat rate and delay
• Remove the shortcuts C-up/down/left/right that are mapped to Mission Control
• Add alfred workflows
  • github (https://github.com/gharlan/alfred-github-workflow/releases)
  • stack overflow (https://github.com/deanishe/alfred-stackoverflow)
  • dash (via the integrations)
• Download dash docsets
  • docker
  • ansible
  • rails
  • ruby
  • elixir
  • bootstrap
  • rspec expectations cheat-sheet
• Sign in to chrome
• Setup 1password
• Enable Shiftit
• Install Bear and Shush from the AppStore

Installing requirements

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

Requirements are kept in the git repo to make the playbook work with ansible-pull