Ansible MacOS Playbook

This is the playbook I use after a clean install of MacOS to set everything up.

Roles/Tasks

• Installs Homebrew packages and app casks (Role homebrew)
• Installs App Store apps with mas-cli (Role mas)
• Modifies MacOS settings (Role settings)
• Changes the user shell, if configured (Role shell)

Installation

1. Install Homebrew.

brew install ansible
# Don't skip this, otherwise your computer will be provisioned like mine
cp default.config.yml config.yml
# Review the changes the playbook will apply
ansible-playbook --check main.yml
# Actually apply them
ansible-playbook main.yml

Updating a fork with the latest changes from this repository

If you forked this repository and want to include its latest changes without losing your own, add this repository as an upstream and rebase it onto your fork:

git remote add upstream git@github.com:jeromegamez/ansible-macos-playbook.git
git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/main

Acknowledgements

This playbook is heavily inspired by Jeff Geerling's mac-dev-playbook.

The macOS settings (a.k.a. defaults writes) are mostly taken from Mathias Bynens' defaults scripts or from one of the dotfiles repos from http://dotfiles.github.io.