Oh My Laptop

Introduction

Tired of spending a whole day configuring your Mac/Linux? Then you’ve come to the right place.

Oh-my-laptop try to provide a simple, modular and flexible way to turn your laptop into an awesome working partner.

This project starts out as a bunch of personal scripts, days when I have to initialize my laptop, my vagrant box, my newly-got Mac. I’m tired and I want some robots.

Actually, Github has a similar project called boxen. However, boxen only works for Mac and it adopt Puppet and I dislike Puppet.

I prefer ansible, for its simplity. Ansible requires no agent in client. The only thing ansible requires is ssh, which lives on almost every *nix based machine. Second, unlike Puppet/Chef, which create a huge and complex DSL, ansible adopt YAML, which makes it quite easy to learn, read and write.

Currently, oh-my-laptop has been tested on Mac OS X 10.10 and Linux Mint 17 KDE, and it should works on some Ubuntu-derived Linux distributions—which means, I don’t have too much time to test all Ubuntu(apt-get)-derived Linux distributions.

Features

• Modular, only install and configure necessary packages as you need.
• Literate, every package has full documentation or links to demonstrate why we choose it and why we configure it this way.
• Simple, all modules are written in ansible playbook, plain YAML format, quite easy to read, write and contribute.
• Fast, all ansible roles in oh-my-laptop are idempotent, and roles always has proper dependency relations, and it is guaranteed that each role will be played once and only once, no matter in what order you specify it.

Quick Start

Mac OS X 10.10

To start, you need to install the following things.

XCode

Please download and install Xcode from the Mac App Store and the necessary Command Line Tools, refer this post for simple tutorial.

Homebrew

There’re various package managers for Mac, among which homebrew is the best and most popular. It’s quite easy to install:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Then you also get homebrew cask via:

brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask

Homebrew cask is really great if you want to install some huge binary packages such as Emacs, pycharm, etc.

Ansible

The only thing oh-my-laptop depends is ansible, please do install it before you join the journey.

Will you trust me?

I’ve write a bootstrap script to get homebrew(on Mac) and ansible for you:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xiaohanyu/oh-my-laptop/master/bootstrap.sh | bash

What’s inside?

One line code to get all packages configured by oh-my-laptop:

find . -name README.org | xargs grep "|" | grep -v Package | grep -v '\-\-\-\-' | sed 's/^.*org://g'

Package	Status	Apt	Homebrew
the_silver_searcher	Required	OK	OK
cloc	Required	OK	OK
htop	Required	OK	OK
md5sha1sum	Required	NaN	OK
proxychains-ng	Recommended	OK	OK
ranger	Required	OK	OK
rlwrap	Required	OK	OK
wget	Required	OK	OK
tmux	Required	OK	OK
zsh	Required	OK	OK
oh-my-zsh	Required	OK	OK
editorconfig	Recommended	NaN	OK
clang	Required	OK	OK
cmake	Recommended	OK	OK
leiningen	Required	OK	OK
Java 8	Required	OK	OK
maven	Required	OK	OK
gradle	Required	OK	OK
nodejs	Required	OK	OK
jshint	Recommended	OK	OK
pyenv	Required	OK	OK
pyenv-doctor	Required	OK	OK
pyenv-update	Required	OK	OK
pyenv-virtualenv	Required	OK	OK
pyenv-which-ext	Required	OK	OK
rbenv	Required	OK	OK
ruby-build	Required	OK	OK
rbenv-gem-rehash	Required	OK	OK
rbenv-default-gems	Required	OK	OK
rbenv-each	Required	OK	OK
rbenv-update	Required	OK	OK
bundler	Required	OK	OK
pry	Required	OK	OK
pry-doc	Required	OK	OK
virtualbox	Required	OK	OK
vagrant	Required	OK	OK
cvs	Deprecated	OK	OK
svn	Deprecated	OK	OK
mercurial	Deprecated	OK	OK
git	Required	OK	OK
git-extras	Required	OK	OK
tig	Required	OK	OK

Let’s go

git clone https://github.com/xiaohanyu/oh-my-laptop
cd oh-my-laptop
# please view oh-my-laptop.yml and enable or disable some modules
$EDITOR oh-my-laptop.yml
ansible-playbook -i localhost -K oh-my-laptop.yml

Reference

• Mac OS X Setup Guide
• How I Fully Automated OS X Provisioning With Ansible
• Local Provisioning With Ansible
• https://github.com/MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks
• https://github.com/bennylope/macbook-configuration