This an Ansible Playbook to provision my macOS.

It will :

• create useful directories.
• install packages (brew(and taps), asdf, npm).
• copy dotfiles which configure various applications(Git, npm, terraform, asdf) in home.
• copy some zsh script, mainly for configuration and some helper functions and aliases.

• install brew : brew.sh/
• install ansible : brew install ansible
• checkout project in ~/Projects/wk_perso/macos-setup/macos-provision.
• copy roles/mac-dev-playbook/files/ansible/ansible.cfg in ~/.ansible.cfg
• init file inventory file in ~/.ansible/inventory e.g.

[localhost]
${HOSTNAME}

• then go to ~/Projects/wk_perso/macos-setup/macos-provision.
• run ansible-playbook main.yml --diff --verbose --inventory ~/.inventory --limit $(hostname).
• authenticate to GitHub

  gh auth login

• change default shell

  chsh -s $(which zsh)

Two functions are provided :

• macconfig will open project with code

• Configure iTerm2 https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/136928/using-alt-cmd-right-left-arrow-in-iterm

Terraform tools are documented in terraform-family.md.

• I talked about this project at DevFest Strasbourg 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EVxJo2A5a8

At your own risk, this playbook doesn't aim to be used by someone else, it's just to share how I provision my computers.

mise install

• To Renew GPG keys, use this script:

  gpg-generate-key.sh

More GPG commands see gpg-cheatsheet.md.

• Look at the excellent article here by https://github.com/Thomgrus: https://www.sfeir.dev/securite/securite-signer-ses-commits/

• Look at https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/set-up-GPG-commit-signing.html#enable-commit-signing for Setup GPG keys.

• Look at https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/250572/222951

• Look at https://efren45marin.medium.com/how-to-take-your-git-commit-messages-to-the-next-level-with-a-commit-template-cd3a608b1ac9