I want my Macbooks to look and behave pretty much identically. This repo helps me provision them as fast as possible with as minimum manual effort as possible.
Ran and tested on macOS Catalina (10.15).
It's basically just a Bash script that installs and configures a bunch of software, such as Command line tools, Homebrew, Git, Fish Shell, as well as configuring a bunch of system settings to my likings.
Just run bash bootstrap
You can provide environment variables in order to make additional configuration, such as altering your global Git configuration, changing which Fish shell version you'd prefer to install etc.
All configuration options are documented below.
To install a specific version, set the FISH_TARGET_VERSION variable:
FISH_TARGET_VERSION=3.0.0 bash bootstrap
Defaults to 3.1.2.
Set the GIT_NAME variable to change global Git name (user.name config key):
GIT_NAME="John Doe" bash bootstrap
Set the GIT_EMAIL variable to change global Git email (user.email config key):
GIT_EMAIL=john@example.com bash bootstrap
Set the TARGET_TIMEZONE variable to change system's timezone settings.
Use sudo systemsetup -listtimezones to find valid values.
Defaults to Europe/Zagreb.
I haven't managed to automate absolutely every single step yet (or don't want to automate some of the things), so for the time being I keep a list of things I need to take care of:
- require password immediately after sleep system config
- GPG keys + Git signing