ansible-setup-macos

Setup a new MacOS installation with my favorite software

This repository contains ansible playbooks to setup a mac

1. on a fresh install, create the user, i.e. my username brian
2. save the script bootstrap.sh from this repository to your local disk. (i.e. view raw and save it)
3. run the script bootstrap.sh on the new MacOS installation to set it up
4. exit the shell and start a new one before continuing to the next step
5. run make to start the setup via ansible
6. have a coffee for 10-15 mins while it installs everything for you

The parts...

bootstrap.sh will install Homebrew, git, pip, ansible and awscli

make will create a 1GB RAM Disk and run the main ansible playbooks: playbooks/init.yml, playbooks/install.yml and playbooks/cleanup.yml.

This will create a temporary download directory and installation directory in the RAM Disk and install all the applications that are listed in playbooks/apps/*.yml. It will then setup some preferences from the playbooks/prefs.yml file. Finally, playbooks/cleanup.yml will delete the RAM disk.

The Makefile has 4 targets: all, init, plays, and cleanup. The default target is all. It is intended to start the installation and configuration with a call to simply make or make all

TODO

1. Enable support for adding apps to accessibility and automation on the Privacy and Security settings of Preferences. This is hard because of SIP in High Sierra and Mojaave, which makes the TCC.db database readonly and SIP protected now.