adamchainz / mac-ansible

:cow2: Configuring my mac with Ansible

mac-ansible

I use this project to configure my macOS the way I like it. That way I can wipe and re-install with less effort. See my blog post.

Getting Started

1. Install homebrew with the command from the site
2. brew install pyenv
3. pyenv install <latest_python_version> (Check playbook up to date)
4. Make sure pyenv's python on path (it will be after my shell settings are in place from playbook)
5. python -m venv venv
6. source venv/bin/activate
7. pip install ansible (always the best way to install Ansible)
8. Then ./playbook.yml

Fork! Copy! Adapt!

This is distributed under the Unlicense so you can do whatever you want with it, see LICENSE.

mac-ansible's Issues

Automate installing of app store apps with 'mas' ?

https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

I only use a few app store apps, could still be useful.

Allow Graceful Failure When Plist Key Does Not Exist

Thanks very much for this work, it is excellent.

Right now using the iTerm2 settings setup doesn't quite work.

This is because the Ansible extension tries to read the setting before it makes any unneccessary changes using defaults read - perfectly sensible. However in the case of trying to set up PrefsCustomFolder in com.googlecode.iterm2 for the first time because this key doesn't exist then it fails.

Under the hood:

jacques:mac-ansible alex$ defaults read com.googlecode.iterm2 PrefsCustomFolder
2018-12-30 08:40:08.253 defaults[25584:599521]
The domain/default pair of (com.googlecode.iterm2, PrefsCustomFolder) does not exist

Work around for the moment: write PrefsCustomFolder manually for the first run through.

Unclear to me what the correct first run behaviour should be: I guess it should be set the key and value in this case without further checks? However this might result in error in writing keys and values that don't exist and are wrongly spelt and so on. Happy to fix this with a quick steer.

Thank you!

Hey @adamchainz, I only wanted to say thanks for sharing your solution here. I allowed to build on top of that and with other ideas and snippets I found a solution which workes for me.

https://github.com/avengers-of-dev/collectors-edition/tree/master/007-ansible

Public password oops

I just want to point out that there is a password public to the world in this file, hopefully it's not your actual one, but just in case you missed it...

mac-ansible/roles/adam_mac/files/dotfiles/pypirc