Easy Mac OS X setup with Ansible

My own OS X setup, shamelessly copied from Joeri, modified to my own needs.

Requirements

• Xcode xcode-select --install
• Homebrew ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" && export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
• Git brew install ansible git

Installation

Before you (can) run the playbooks, you should (need) to configure them.

Configuration

Start by duplicating vars.yml.dist to vars.yml and adjust it to your own needs.

cp vars.yml.dist vars.yml

Running playbooks

Run all playbooks:

ansible-playbook setup.yml --ask-sudo-pass

Or run specific tagged roles:

ansible-playbook setup.yml --tags osx --ask-sudo-pass

Application Settings

Application settings are synced with dropbox using Mackup. Once the playbooks finished running, wait until dropbox is synced and run mackup restore.

Issues

• ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)\n You don't have write permissions for the /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 directory.

  Change owner of the gem folder sudo chown -R user:group /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0 (source)

Inspired by

• osx-for-hackers.sh
• ideasonpurpose/ansible-playbooks
• mackup
• macplan