Ansible Role: Homebrew (MOVED)
MOVED: This role has been moved into the geerlingguy.mac
collection. Please see this issue for a migration guide and more information.
Installs Homebrew on MacOS, and configures packages, taps, and cask apps according to supplied variables.
Requirements
None.
Role Variables
Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml
):
homebrew_repo: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
The GitHub repository for Homebrew core.
homebrew_prefix: "{{ (ansible_machine == 'arm64') | ternary('/opt/homebrew', '/usr/local') }}"
homebrew_install_path: "{{ homebrew_prefix }}/Homebrew"
The path where Homebrew will be installed (homebrew_prefix
is the parent directory). It is recommended you stick to the default, otherwise Homebrew might have some weird issues. If you change this variable, you should also manually create a symlink back to /usr/local so things work as Homebrew expects.
homebrew_brew_bin_path: /usr/local/bin
The path where brew
will be installed.
homebrew_installed_packages:
- ssh-copy-id
- pv
- { name: vim, install_options: "with-luajit,override-system-vi" }
Packages you would like to make sure are installed via brew install
. You can optionally add flags to the install by setting an install_options
property, and if used, you need to explicitly set the name
for the package as well. By default, no packages are installed (homebrew_installed_packages: []
).
homebrew_uninstalled_packages: []
Packages you would like to make sure are uninstalled.
homebrew_upgrade_all_packages: false
Whether to upgrade homebrew and all packages installed by homebrew. If you prefer to manually update packages via brew
commands, leave this set to false
.
homebrew_taps:
- homebrew/core
- { name: my_company/internal_tap, url: 'https://example.com/path/to/tap.git' }
Taps you would like to make sure Homebrew has tapped.
homebrew_cask_apps:
- firefox
- { name: virtualbox, install_options:"debug,appdir=/Applications" }
Apps you would like to have installed via cask
. Search for popular apps to see if they're available for install via Cask. Cask will not be used if it is not included in the list of taps in the homebrew_taps
variable. You can optionally add flags to the install by setting an install_options
property, and if used, you need to explicitly set the name
for the package as well. By default, no Cask apps will be installed (homebrew_cask_apps: []
).
homebrew_cask_accept_external_apps: true
Default value is false
and would result in interruption of further processing of the whole role (and ansible play) in case any app given in homebrew_cask_apps
is already installed without cask
. Good for a tightly managed system.
Specify as true
instead if you prefer to silently continue if any App is already installed without cask
. Generally good for a system that is managed with cask
/ Ansible
as well as other install methods (like manually) at the same time.
homebrew_cask_uninstalled_apps:
- google-chrome
Apps you would like to make sure are uninstalled.
homebrew_cask_appdir: /Applications
Directory where applications installed via cask
should be installed.
homebrew_use_brewfile: true
Whether to install via a Brewfile. If so, you will need to install the homebrew/bundle
tap, which could be done within homebrew_taps
.
homebrew_brewfile_dir: '~'
The directory where your Brewfile is located.
homebrew_clear_cache: false
Set to true
to remove the Hombrew cache after any new software is installed.
homebrew_user: "{{ ansible_user_id }}"
The user that you would like to install Homebrew as.
homebrew_group: "{{ ansible_user_gid }}"
The group that you would like to use while installing Homebrew.
homebrew_folders_additional: []
Any additional folders inside homebrew_prefix
for which to ensure homebrew user/group ownership.
Dependencies
Example Playbook
- hosts: localhost
vars:
homebrew_installed_packages:
- mysql
roles:
- geerlingguy.homebrew
See the tests/local-testing
directory for an example of running this role over
Ansible's local
connection. See also:
Mac Development Ansible Playbook.
License
Author Information
This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.