macbook-playbook

Automatically prepare a Macbook for development and desktop tasks using Ansible.

Last tested on

• MacBookPro14,3 with macOS 10.12.6

Encrypted files (using Ansible Vault)

• Private SSH key: ssh-keys/files/id_rsa
• s3cmd configuraton: s3cmd/files/.s3cfg
• Enviroment variables for dotfiles:dotfiles/vars/environment.yml
• Prey API key: prey/vars/api_key.yml

Configuring machine

Manual steps

1. Enable assistive access

Clone repository

$ git clone https://github.com/mpereira/macbook-playbook.git

Prepare machine to run the Ansible playbooks (installs command line developer tools and Ansible)

$ make bootstrap

Create an Ansible Vault password

$ echo 'SomePassword123$' > .ansible_vault_password

Configure machine

$ make converge

Installs

Desktop Applications

• Android File Transfer
• Dash
• Dropbox
• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Google Photos
• LICEcap
• Skitch
• Steam
• Teensy Loader
• Unity
• XQuartz
• YNAB

Text Editors

• Emacs 25
• LightTable
• MacVim
• Neovim 1.5
• Vim 8.0

Communication

• irssi
• IrssiNotifier
• Skype
• Slack

Configuration

• dotemacs
• dotfiles

Multimedia

• Beets
• Cantata
• FFmpeg
• mpc
• mpd
• mpdscribble
• mpg123
• mplayer
• shpotify
• Spotify
• TagLib
• Theremin
• vimpc
• VLC

Browser Plugins

• Firefox Adblock Plus
• Firefox Pentadactyl
• Google Chrome Hangouts
• JRE
• Silverlight

Programming Languages

• GNU Octave
• Haskell Platform
• Java (JDK)
• Lua
• LuaJIT
• Node.js
• PureScript
• Python 3
• R
• Ruby

Virtualization

• Docker
• Vagrant (with vagrant-vbguest plugin)
• Vagrant vagrant-vbguest plugin
• VirtualBox

Shell

• fish-foreign-env
• fish
• iTerm
• oh-my-zsh
• Powerline
• tmux
• Zsh

Haskell Utilities

• ghc-mod
• hdevtools
• hindent
• hlint
• hoogle
• pointfree

Security

• Prey
• GnuPG
• vault

GNU Command Line Tools

• binutils
• coreutils
• diffutils
• ed
• findutils
• gawk
• gnu-indent
• gnu-sed
• gnu-tar
• gnu-which
• gnutls
• grep
• gzip
• screen
• watch
• wdiff
• wget

UI

• BitBar
• Divvy

Data Systems

• Apache Hadoop
• PostgreSQL 9.4
• pgsanity

Configuration, Monitoring and Debugging

• Apache JMeter
• chefdk
• Glances
• htop
• vtop

Document Processors

• MacTeX
• OpenOffice

Package Managers and Build Tools

• bundler
• CMake
• Homebrew
• leiningen
• MacPorts
• pulp

Miscellaneous

• Ctags
• defaultbrowser
• FontForge
• git
• Heroku CLI
• Hugo
• jq
• jsxhint
• p7zip
• Qt 5
• reattach-to-user-namespace
• s3cmd
• terminal-notifier
• the-silver-searcher
• tmuxinator
• tree
• wget
• wkhtmltopdf

Configures

• Passwordless sudo
• Remaps Caps-Lock to Control (currently broken on macOS Sierra)
• Puts SSH keys in place
• Patches Monaco font for Powerline

Author

Murilo Pereira

License

MIT