Automated Mac setup with Ansible
danbohea
Wouldn't it be great if you could automate the journey from bare OS to a working dev environment including all of your go-to apps and configured just how you like?
You can...
And I'm not talking about VMs - I mean configure macOS and install/configure apps. I've spent a good while doing exactly this with Ansible. My work to date has resulted in the development of a basic framework and general approach which I'll be sharing.
This session will cover:
- some of my experiences in trying to acheive this,
- tools that I have used and some that I have developed for this task,
- how you can approach automating the setup of your own systems,
- how we can hopefully share the workload through free & open source development (hurrah!).
This session may be of interest to:
- anyone interested in Ansible,
- businesses (big & small) seeking to automate provisioning of local dev systems,
- developers that care about being able to both document and reproduce their dev environment in detail,
- any Mac users.
NB. Don't worry, I'm not an Apple fanboy and the word "magical" will not make an appearance.