mac-dev-playbook

Looking for ideas here! New machine will be on OS X. I am currently playing around with Ansible and for now I am able to set up much of the non-dev applications + `pnpm`, `ruby`, `go`. (I based a lot of it on https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook as I wanted to learn Ansible anyway). Thank you!

Jeff Geerling has a phenomenal ansible playbook to setup his macs: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

> In the 22 years since I became a “switcher”, this is the worst state I can remember Apple’s platforms being in. Indeed, I remember three times when Apple went a bit overboard on the feature front, but dialed it back and made some of the most stable and useful OS versions: OS 8.5/8.6 pushed a bunch of features and were the last big pushes pre-OSX, but then OS 9 fixed a TON of bugs, and added a few smaller quality of life improvements that made running 'Classic' Mac OS pretty good, for those who were stuck on it for the transitional years. Mac OS X 10.0 rewrote _everything_, and especially 10.0 was _dog_ slow, with all the new Quartz graphics stuff in an era where GPU accelerated 3D display widgets wasn't quite prevalent. 10.1 patched in a bunch of missing features (like DVD Player—it was still a pretty useful tool back then), and fixed a

This is how I set up my Mac as well; just a local connection. Sets up out of box Mac in about 15 minutes and I can keep my two Mac's configs in perfect sync: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

I symlink a few files in place via Dropbox, but have most of my local configs in a dot files repo: https://github.com/geerlingguy/dotfiles Then for more systemwide configuration, I have an Ansible playbook I run every now and then (configures apps, dock item order, etc): https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook a well loved and maintained ansible playbook for macs. Just FYI

Nice - i learned few tricks from there. for the mac setup, I have been using this for years and works well for me. https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

What do you use to sync apps/settings etc across multiple devices (Mac and/or Linux)? When I was using linux I used Stow [1] to manage my dotfiles and configs. When I moved to Mac, I started maintaining a Brewfile under my dotfiles repository [2], with a combinations of homebrew [3], homebrew-bundle [4], mas [5] and whalebrew [6] that installs all the apps (cli, native apps, docker images, app store etc) I still have to install homebrew in the beginning and login to iCloud but this setup works. I still have to setup each app individually. I also tried Ansible and @geerlingguy fantastic Mac setup Ansible playbook [6], but I was not able to automate the process as I needed to have python3 and ansible setup correctly in my system first. I would like to know what workflow do other hackers use to quickly setup new machines and make them produc

I went a step further, and automated as much as I can with Ansible. Had to reinstall everything after an SSD failure recently, this made it a fun project. I'm also planning on upgrading my machine soon, so that should make the process a lot faster. I started from this and customized it to my needs: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

I use Ansible, and it pulls in everything I need, including my dotfiles, which are managed in a separate repo: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

I posted [mac-dev-playbook](https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook) (an Ansible-based solution) a few weeks back, and this shell-script approach is in some ways a foil to a more heavyweight setup like the one I'm currently using. Definitely not saying one way is better than the other, but as I've gone deeper into _needing_ to use more than one Mac, it's been easier to manage things with Ansible (which helps me maintain idempotence and uniformity between machines more easily). But if I were managing one Mac, I would probably lean further towards the simplicity of a script like this one.