This set of playbooks was originally inspired by [MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks](https://github.com/MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks), but has since been heavily modified, and installs and configures most of the software I use on my Mac for web and software development, as well as my preferred settings for OS X and some of my development applications. Some things in OS X are difficult to get scripted (notably, the Mac App Store), 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 adding settings and packages to this set of playbooks over time.
- [Battleschool](http://spencer.gibb.us/blog/2014/02/03/introducing-battleschool), is a more general solution than what I've built here. (It may be a better option if you don't want to fork this repo and hack it for your own workstation...).
- [osxc](https://github.com/osxc) is another more general solution, set up so you can fork the [xc-custom](https://github.com/osxc/xc-custom) repo and get your own local environment bootstrapped quickly.
2. [Install Ansible](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html), and get the homebrew role by running `$ ansible-galaxy install geerlingguy.homebrew`.
3. Run `ansible-playbook main.yml --ask-sudo-pass` from the same directory as this README file.
The following homebrew packages are automagically installed:
- autoconf
- gettext
- libevent
- packer
- python
- sqlite
- mysql
- ssh-copy-id
- cowsay
- ios-sim
- readline
- subversion
- kdiff3
- openssl
- pv
- wget
- caskroom/cask/brew-cask
Jeff Geerling's [dotfiles](https://github.com/geerlingguy/dotfiles) are also installed into the current user's home directory, including the `.osx` dotfile (which is not run automatically—you can run it on your own with `$ sudo ~/.osx`.
It's my hope that I can get the rest of these things wrapped up into Ansible playbooks soon, but for now, these steps need to be completed manually (assuming you already have Xcode and Ansible installed, and have run this playbook).
1. Install JJG-Term.terminal theme (double-click to install).
I also use the following apps at least once or twice per week, but unfortunately, as the Mac App Store is not able to be controlled via CLI, or any other way I can find (so far), I have to manually install all of these apps from within the App Store application.
There are a couple other apps I'm leaving out of the list, like Microsoft Word, because I normally don't install them unless/until I need them; unfortunately, about once a year, I get a document that's so old/strange that I need Word or Powerpoint to open the file. I wish people didn't use document layout and slide presentation applications to send me basic textual information :-/
If Ansible piques your interest, please check out the book I'm working on, [Ansible for DevOps](https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devops), which will teach you how to do some other amazing things with Ansible.
