macOS-setup

The repository contains the files I use to configure a new installation of macOS to my liking. Feel free to clone/fork and alter to your needs.

Main Functionality

The Ansible code does, in order:

• Configure settings for MacOS, see mac-ansible/scripts/macos-settings.sh
• Setup a few standard paths I use; ~/git, ~/tmp and ~/bin.
• Installs a set of applications using brew, see mac-ansible/files/brewfile for the full list.
• Install NeoVim and some dependancies and checkout the NeoVim config repository to ~/.config/nvim
• Install dotfiles for various software configurations.
• Sets up SSH keys if a private {{ cloudfiles_path }}/ssh_config directory is not found.
• Sets up Python and pyenv with a default virtual environment.
• Configures the MacOS dock
• Clones a list of git repo's if defined.
• Miscellaneous stuff like hostname, a crontab script etc.
• Configures file extentions (currently none defined btw)

Installation

On first run you need to do make init

On subsequent runs just make main or use mac-ansible/ansible-wrapper.sh which can also take Ansible tags for the specific tasks to limit the execution.

Customization

The default settigs are in mac-ansible/default.config.yml but if you want to change one or more of the settings, then create mac-ansible/config.yml with altered variables to your liking.

Private dotfiles

The setup allows for using dotfiles stored in other places, eg your own Owncloud or iCloud. The dotfiles need to be stored at the location pointed to with {{ cloudfiles_path }}. In that location you can store dotfiles, without the dot in front, as stored in your homedir or in sub-directories of a directory called config, which is the XDG_CONFIG_DIR by default.

An example dotfiles dir could like this:

├── ansible-lint
├── gitconfig
├── gitignore
├── config
│  └── tmux
│     └── tmux.conf
└── zshrc

Manual steps

Add SSH key to the Apple keychain

/usr/bin/ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Inspiration

The initial setup of this project is highly based on JJGO/macOS-setup and along the way I altered it to my own needs.