This repository installs my development environment that I use at work and in private. The installation is orchestrated using ansible. Homebrew is used to install all neccessary tools.

WARNING: This installer is experimental and only targets MacOS for now. Use at your own risk.

Simply execute ./install.sh from the repository root. It will install brew and ansible, the two prerequisites, and then start the ansible playbook. You will be prompted for the BECOME password which is the password you use to execute commands with sudo.

Then, you will need to entersome variable values for git configuration. I use two seperate git environments, one for work and one for private projects, where I configure different commit names and mail addresses. I achieved this using git's conditional includes.

If you want to, you can define some (or all) of these variables as extra variables by calling, for example:

$ ./install.sh -e "cli_commit_name=\"Hugh Mungus\" [email protected] [email protected]"

You will still be asked for the full/nick name to use for work but it will default to cli_commit_name.

All arguments passed to install.sh will be passed on to the ansible-playbook command as is. Please be aware that correct quoting is required for this to work!

NOTE You will be prompted to install Apple's Command Line Tools if not already installed. This will open a popup and you will have to agree to License Agreements. While this is not required for the installation to succeed, I would still recommend doing so in order to be able to use git.

The iTerm2 dynamic profiles feature is used to automatically load profiles to iTerm2. After installing cli, please make sure to select the iterm profile and make it default.

To do that, open iTerm2 -> Preferences -> Profiles (or, command(⌘) + ;), select the iterm profile, click Other Actions..., and finally Set as Default.

To show or hide all iTerm2 windows, thus quickly switching between iTerm2 and other applications, go to iTerm2 -> Preferences -> Keys -> Hotkeys and select the checkbox Show/hide all windows with a system-wide hotkey. Afterwards, set the hotkey: I personally prefer control(^) + ^, but use whatever works for you.

To import settings, use the appropriate function in IntelliJ's UI and select the settings zip file in roles/settings/files.

VirtualBox needs a Kernel Extension to be enabled in order to run correctly. To do so, you have to go to MacOS System Preferences -> Security & Privacy and unlock settings by clicking on the lock. Then, press the Allow next to a message similar to "System software from developer “Oracle America, Inc.” was blocked from loading.".

Simply call vagrant up which will provision and start a MacOS Big Sur vagrant box. Note: The first time you do this will take quite long as the vagrant box is rather large and Homebrew needs to update

Then run the playbook on your local machine: ansible-playbook -v -K -i hosts_vagrant.yml -e "cli_commit_name=\"Hugh Mungus\" [email protected] [email protected]" cli-playbook.yml. The BECOME password is simply vagrant. Keep in mind that you need to confirm a UI dialog should you need to enable git.

Warning: The box needs the Virtual Box Extension Pack. It is installed and you automatically agree to its license!

Ansible's command module does not run through a shell. This may cause the commands to misbehave on remote targets. Thus, I specified fully-qualified paths to commands that are installed by brew, even though this might make the script "less portable". As I target MacOS, exclusively, this should not pose problems.

Make sure that you "Allow apps downloaded from" the "App Store and identifier developers" under MacOS `System Preferences -> Security & Privacy. I will not temporarily disable Gatekeeper during the installation.

• Toptal for generating my .gitignore
• mbadolato for providing a patches Solarized Dark color scheme for iterm2
• aMarcireau for providing a very clean, stripped-down MacOS vagrant box