superlumic/ansible-role-homebrew

Ansible role to install Homebrew on OSX. This role is part of the Superlumic project that aims to simplify repeat computer setups on OSX, 10.10 and up.

Superlumic

Superlumic is a light utility wrapper around Ansible to ease the automated install of OSX 10.10 and higher. It uses several roles distilled over years of use in the Chef based predecessor, Kitchenplan.

Since moving to Ansible for my server deploys, I wanted to bring the same experience I created with Kitchenplan to OSX via Ansible. Existing solutions like Battleschool didn't offer the user experience I had in mind, so I started fresh.

While the Kitchenplan wrapper uses a Ruby gem and quite some code, I kept Superlumic a pure Bash script and use as much of the Ansible ecosystem and built in Ansible features as possible. This will help in extensability and maintenance.

Configuration

Start by forking superlumic-config. This is the default configuration "role" for Superlumic and will serve as a starting point for your own configuration.

You will need at least a "username.yml" playbook, where you replace "username" by the username you will run Superlumic as on your mac. Use the roles folder to create "profiles" and add extra dependencies in the "requirements.yml" as needed.

How you organise your config files is entirely up to you, but this is how I do it. The "profile-all" role are the apps and settings that everyone in my company needs. Then I have a group file per type of installation (developers, designers, etc). In the "username.yml" playbook I then add all the specific things for that user.

Running Superlumic

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/superlumic/superlumic/master/superlumic | bash -s <your repo clone url here>

Or if you have an adversion to piping scripts over the internet into bash, download the Superlumic script and run it.

Out of the box result?

Starting from "roderik.yml" this will get you:

• All my favorite GUI apps installed via Homebrew Cask
• All my favorite commandline apps installed via Homebrew
• A fully operational PHP 5.5 installation with composer, optimised for running Symfony
• A MySQL and Postgresql database
• A configured Sublime Text 3
• NodeJS and several frontend oriented tools like bower, gulp and grunt
• A bash 4 CLI environment, with a nice prompt, and terminal theme
• A VIM environment with Janus installed
• A whole host of "osx default" settings including computername, dock size and position, etc

and, since it's almost pure Ansible, a very easy way to adjust, tune and extend this configuration to match your needs exactly.

ansible-role-homebrew's Issues

git config in a seperate role

Roderik, I think that the configuration of git has nothing to do with homebrew installation and configuration. It will be cleaner to seperate this in another role.

If you agree, I'll create the necessary pull requests.

Pass flags when installing a specific package

For example, I want to install MacVim with the --with-override-system-vim flag. Currently I have something like this:

- name: install developer brew applications
  homebrew: name={{item}} state=latest
  with_items:
    - macvim
    - tmux

Thanks @roderik!

Error: A newer Command Line Tools release is available

On a fresh install, superlumic fails after ansible-role-homebrew. I'm getting this error:
Error: A newer Command Line Tools release is available.\nUpdate them from Software Update in the App Store.

In diagnosing, when I run $ brew doctor I see:
Error: You have not agreed to the Xcode license. Please resolve this by running:
sudo xcodebuild -license accept

That might be something to add to the script.

Do not install brew-cask

The way you enable casks these days is just by tapping, according to the official page http://caskroom.io/:

$ brew tap caskroom/cask

No need to do this:

ansible-role-homebrew/tasks/main.yml

Lines 31 to 32 in fbb5cae

	- name: install homebrew cask
	homebrew: name=caskroom/cask/brew-cask state=latest