Mac Development Ansible Playbook

This set of playbooks was originally cloned from MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks, and basically installs all the software I use on my Mac for web and software development. Well, all the software I can get without using the Mac App Store, which can't be scripted.

This is very much 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.

Caveat: This set of playbooks is not meant to be a great example of Ansible best practices. I just want to wrap my Mac's configuration in Ansible so I can quickly bring up a new development Mac without having to restore from a Time Machine backup.

Installation

1. Clone this repository somewhere.
2. Install Ansible.
3. Run ansible-playbook main.yml --ask-sudo-pass.

Additions coming soon

General changes:

• Fix TODOs (idempotence, mostly)

Applications/packages to be added:

• Cornerstone SVN
• Tower (Git)
• MenuMeters
• nvAlt
• PCKeyboardHack
• My dotfiles
• etc...

Settings to be added:

• Terminal theme (Jeff's OSX)
• Sublime text settings/package manager
• Keyboard remappings (Caps Lock -> escape)
• Faster key repeat rates
• Desktop background
• Trackpad tracking rate
• Mouse tracking rate
• Finder settings:
  • Disable "show warning before changing extension"
  • Set default view to column mode
  • Show hard disks, connected servers on desktop
• etc...

Ansible for DevOps

If Ansible piques your interest, please check out the book I'm working on, Ansible for DevOps, where I actually do follow Ansible best practices, and will teach you how to do some other amazing things with Ansible.

Author

Jeff Geerling, 2014 (originally forked from MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks).