mac-dev-bootstrap

A very opinionated Ansible playbook to install, configure and update the following development tools on a Mac:

• 1Password
• Alfred
• amix/vimrc
• ChronoSync
• CleanMyMac
• Docker Desktop
• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Google Cloud SDK
• Homebrew
• iTerm2
• Nerd Fonts
• NVM (Node Version Manager)
• Oh MyZsh
• Postman
• Rectangle
• Skitch
• Spotify
• Sublime Text
• Textmate
• XCode Command Line Tools
• ... and many commonly used DevOps commands

Tested on:

• macOS Sonoma
• macOS Big Sur
• macOS Catalina
• macOS Ventura

Getting Started

• Run ./mac-dev-bootstrap.sh to begin the installation.
  • Note: When getting Bash must not run in POSIX mode. Please unset POSIXLY_CORRECT and try again. error, install Homebrew and upgrade Bash to the latest version:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew install bash

• To install/configure just specific installation(s), run ./mac-dev-bootstrap.sh --tags "[ROLE_TAGS]", ex:

  • ./mac-dev-bootstrap.sh --tags "nvm": Install just NVM.
  • ./mac-dev-bootstrap.sh --tags "nvm,gcloud": Install NVM and Google Cloud SDK.

• To display the arguments passed to each task, run ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_ARGS_TO_STDOUT=true ./mac-dev-bootstrap.sh.

• To update all the tools in the future, run update in the terminal.