This set of playbooks is roughly based on [MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks](https://github.com/MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks), and installs and configures all the software I use on my Mac for web and software development, as well as my preferred settings for OS X. Some things in OS X are difficult to get scripted (notably, the Mac App Store in general), 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.
**Caveat**: This set of playbooks is not meant to be an example of Ansible best practices. I just want to wrap my Mac's configuration in Ansible so I can quickly install all the available development tools I use and need for my development purposes.
*See also*: [Battleschool](http://spencer.gibb.us/blog/2014/02/03/introducing-battleschool), which looks like it's aiming to be 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...).
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 then run to configure Mac OS X, the Finder, Terminal, Mail, and other apps according to the settings inside.
Finally, there are a few other preferences and settings added on for various apps and services.
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 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), where I actually *do* follow Ansible best practices, and will teach you how to do some other amazing things with Ansible.
