project-show-animal

If servers are cattle, not pets, what are workstations? They are "show animals"--valuable, pampered beasts when compared to cattle, but in the end, we only keep them as long as they are useful.

We want our Macs to be tools--fungible, flexible and easily rebuilt--and this is a project to make it possible to rebuild a Mac every week.

Directions:

PREREQUISITES

• Install XCode Command Line Tools

  • (the native Mac git install requires it)
  • THERE HAS GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY TO DO THIS

• Clone this repo:

    git clone https://github.com/jodylent/project-show-animal.git
  

• Set up any cloud storage used by your dotfiles repo(s).

• Sign into iCloud (if you use mas to automate Mac App Store)

• Copy down/up any SSH keys you use for repos

USAGE

• Modify input_vars.sh

  • Set your Git user info
  • Set a new hostname

• Run new_mac.sh

    bash /path/to/project-show-animal/new_mac.sh
  

What it does:

• Secures your ssh key with chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa if it exists.
• Clones and runs Strap:
  • Installs Homebrew
  • Downloads/accepts license/installs Xcode Command Line Tools
  • Downloads https://github.com/$STRAP_GITHUB_USER/dotfiles to ~/.dotfiles
    • Runs any scripts in ~/.dotfiles/setup
    • (I symlink in my dotfiles)
  • Downloads Brewfile from https://github.com/$STRAP_GITHUB_USER/homebrew-brewfile
  • Runs brew bundle --global
  • Does other awesome stuff. See the README
• Sets git config for your company URL to use SSH
• Sources ~/.bash_profile
• Installs pip-requirements from ~/.dotfiles/script/pip-requirements.txt
• Installs macOS settings from ~/.dotfiles/script/macos.sh
• Installs application settings from ~/.dotfiles/script/app_settings.sh (someday, may use https://github.com/lra/mackup)
• Syncs git repos using ~/.dotfiles/script/refresh_repos.sh
• Reboots if run with --reboot

Things that have to be done by hand post-run:

• AWS CLI & Boto config: ~/.aws/{config,credentials}
• Chrome Extensions: any configuration
• Pip/gem install requirements for repos
• System Preferences > Internet Accounts
• Installing anything without a Homebrew cask or formula
• Allow yourself unlimited cosmic power:

sudo su -
visudo -f /etc/sudoers

# Sudo no password -- USE AT YOUR OWN RISK
USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

• Open SublimeText > Install Packages to refresh in symlinked configs
• Disable "Smart Quotes" in System Preferences > Keyboard > Text > "Use Smart Quotes and Dashes"

Related repos

• https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap
• https://github.com/jodylent/dotfiles
• https://github.com/jodylent/homebrew-brewfile
• https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
• https://github.com/lra/mackup
• https://github.com/tiiiecherle/osx_install_config