Pre-requisites:

• Xcode Command-Line Tools:

xcode-select --install

• homebrew

# Looks scary, but does the job
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

• ansible

brew install ansible

• sudoers with NOPASSWD: ALL (some of the tasks require become: yes and will fail if sudo asks for a password).

- %admin  ALL = (ALL) ALL
+ %admin  ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

To run the playbook:

ansible-playbook main.yaml

This is configured to install and update the following dotfiles repository.

Most of the defaults configuration is done through tasks/osx_defaults.yaml.

Unfortunately, Ansible is lacking dict and dict-add support (despite a well done PR) in its osx_defaults module, so there are a couple of scripts that can be run manually:

files/other_defaults
files/spotlight

files/other_defaults

• Custom keyboard shortcuts require dict-add.
• Screenshot location (it has ~ in it) is expanded at runtime and is not idempotent.

files/spotlight

• Spotlight configuration removes all volumes but / from indexing configuration and re-builds index on /.
• I don't recommend running this often.

This might be a Mojave Beta-only issue, but defaults write treats all passed values as strings (whether they should be booleans, integers, or floats) in a construct like this:

defaults write com.apple.symbolichotkeys AppleSymbolicHotKeys -dict-add 60 "{ enabled = 1; value = { type = standard; parameters = ( 32, 49, 1048576 ); }; }"

so I have to pass all values in XML format.

Feel free to submit issues, PRs, or just comment.