Personal computer configuration.
This is the idalab MacBook configuration.
Set up
Run the bootstrap script. This will ensure gcc, Homebrew, and Ansible are installed:
$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ ansible-playbook local.yml -K -i hosts
The -K flag means that Ansible will prompt you for your sudo password
before it executes the playbook.
If it's your first time, go brew some coffee or tea because this will take a while
Using Vagrant to configure and run a virtual machine:
First, Download: vagrant - [https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html](Link URL) virtualbox - [https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads](Link URL) download the extension package for virtualbox in the above link as well.
Vagrant is used to script the creation of a virtua machine (in our case using the virtualbox platform) and enables preconfiguration of it. The included VagrantFile will start a MacOS Siera virtualbox and run the configuration script (bootstrap4vagrant.sh).
once you have downloaded all the necessary softwares run (in this folder):
$ vagrant up
This will create and configure the virtual machine according to the vagrant file. Important: on the first run of "vagrant up" vagrant will downloaded the base image for the virtual machine, also known as "box". In our case of using the box for macos it may take about 2 hours.
Currently the vagrantfile will only install on the virtual machine developer tools, homebrew and ansible.
Once the virtual machine is up, you can ssh to it with:
$ vagrant ssh
To actually run the ansible-playbook run the following commands on the virtual machine:
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
$ cd /vagrant
$ ansible-playbook local.yml
If you wish to interact with the virtual machine with a GUI run the following shell command on the virtual machine:
$ sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -off -restart -agent -privs -all -allowAccessFor -allUsers
On your machine in the Finder press CMD+K and type in: vnc://192.168.33.10 User: vagrant Password: vagrant
enjoy!!