ansible VS mac-dev-playbook

I put together a new version of my dotfile manager this weekend and figured it was time to share again since I was quite happy how it's turned out. By day I'm a engineer and I work in the terminal almost exclusively. My tools of choice are Alacritty + tmux + vim, plus many others. It supports both intel and arm Macs. Hope someone can find it helpful!

I do some ternary variable setting here if an example would help: https://github.com/bradleyfrank/ansible/blob/main/playbooks/group_vars/os_Linux/system.yml

Here's the repo: https://github.com/bradleyfrank/ansible

My tmux template: https://github.com/bradleyfrank/ansible/blob/main/playbooks/templates/tmux.conf.j2

Personally I like the promoting approach. I use it to generate an inventory for localhost. Maybe there’s some examples you can use here: https://github.com/bradleyfrank/ansible/blob/main/setup/site.yml

The main repo

With Ansible: https://github.com/bradleyfrank/ansible

To get your Linux ready to use after a fresh install you might have an Ansible playbook to get the system ready to go with all the tools you need.

Not public. But you can search YouTube for geerlingguy and Ansible Mac. I got the idea from him https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

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

One way I have seen is to use Ansible and a playbook - Jeff Geerling does this here but that's a bit OTT for me.

Jeff Geerling has a Mac Dev PlayBook repo that is pretty close to how I would build my system.

There is, I use this with some of my own customizations https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

If you go down the route of using Ansible, this is a very complete script for Mac OS. Even if you don't use it, you can see how many useful apps can be installed (mac-dev-playbook)[https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook]

If you go down the route of using Ansible, this is a very complete tool for Mac OS. Even if you don't use it, you can see how many useful apps can be installed mac-dev-playbook And if Ansible if just too much, try this simple way to code, document, and replay bits of your installation scripts with this tool I wrote recently and use to deploy systems daily. markdown_exec

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