Mac Development Ansible Playbook

This playbook installs and configures most of the software I use on my Mac for web and software development. Some things in OS X are difficult to automate (notably, the Mac App Store and certain tools from Apple), 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 repository over time. It was originally forked from geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook.

Installation

Install Ansible.
Download and install Xcode.
Ensure Apple's command line tools are installed (xcode-select --install to launch the installer).
Clone this repository to your local drive.
Run ansible-playbook main.yml -i inventory --ask-sudo-pass from the same directory as this README file or run it in Vagrant using the instructions below.

Included Applications / Configuration

View this main.yml file to see what applications are installed.

My dotfiles are also installed into the current user's home directory, including the .osx dotfile for configuring many aspects of Mac OS X for better performance and ease of use.

Finally, there are a few other preferences and settings added on for various apps and services.

Future additions

Things that still need to be done manually

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).

Generate SSH key and upload it to Github and Bitbucket

Set Homebrew Github access token:

Try again in 44 minutes 12 seconds, or create a personal access token:
https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?scopes=&description=Homebrew and then set the token as: HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN

Install Sublime Package Manager.
Install all the other apps (see below).
Configure extra Mail and/or Calendar accounts (e.g. Google, Exchange, etc.).
Install RVM for Ruby dev
Install virtual_env for python dev
Install latest stable ruby
Install latest stable nodejs

Applications/packages to be added:

I also use the following apps at least once or twice per week, but unfortunately, they are not able to be grabbed and installed 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 or from direct downloads.

Airmail
Amphetamine
Spotify
Speak
Screenhero
Sketch
Pixelmator
Principle for Mac
Paste
Omnigraffle
1Password
Pages
Keynote
Numbers

Configuration to be added:

I have Vim configuration in the repo, but I still need to add the actual installation:

mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload
mkdir -p ~/.vim/bundle
cd ~/.vim/autoload
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tpope/vim-pathogen/master/autoload/pathogen.vim > pathogen.vim
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree.git

Testing the Playbook

I don't need to wipe my entire workstation and start from scratch just to test changes to the playbook. That would suck! Instead I use Vagrant to spin up an OSX virtual machine, on which I can continually run and re-run this playbook to test changes and make sure things work correctly.

To do this simply run:

vagrant init jhcook/osx-elcapitan-10.11;
Add your provisioners:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|

  # Install Ansible first because ansible_local isn't supported
  # in Vagrant on OS X (at least not El Capitan)
  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
    sudo easy_install pip
    sudo pip install ansible
  SHELL
  
  # Run Ansible Playbook from your host machine on
  # the Vagrant Host
  config.vm.provision "ansible_local" do |ansible|
    ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml"
    ansible.sudo = true
    ansible.inventory_path = "inventory"
  end

end

vagrant up

A bit more Neckbeardy

If you want to build the VirtualBox Vagrant box manually and customize it, you can follow Tim Sutton's amazing work to build a Mac OS X VM image with Packer.

TL; DR

NOTE: You need to have Vagrant installed

Download the El Capitan installer though the app store (or whatever OSX version you want).
brew install virtualbox, virtualbox-extension-pack
git clone https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates
cd osx-vm-templates
sudo prepare_iso/prepare_iso.sh -D DISABLE_REMOTE_MANAGEMENT "/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app" out
packer build -var iso_checksum=dc34e0dcf6c34e626a85c40f19e9a85d -var iso_url=../out/OSX_InstallESD_10.11.2_15C50.dmg -only virtualbox-iso template.json
vagrant box add virtualbox-osx-el-capitan-10.1.1 ./packer_virtualbox-iso_virtualbox.box
vagrant init virtualbox-osx-el-capitan-10.1.1
Add this to your Vagrantfile:

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
  # Display the VirtualBox GUI when booting the machine
  # vb.gui = true

  # Customize the amount of memory on the VM:
  vb.memory = "2048"

  # Setup the synced directory
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "rsync"
end

vagrant up

Taking it a step further

Once you have tested your Ansible playbook and are happy with it. You can solidify it a bit more by setting it up as a provisioner in Packer like so:

{
  "type": "ansible-local",
  "playbook_file": "main.yml"
}

Then you can rebuild your Vagrant Box and the final image will have all your changes in Ansible applied as well!

ekryski/mac-dev-playbook