macOS

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macOS Working Group

The macOS Working Group collaborates on macOS and macOS-related technologies in Ansible.

News

• macOS works out of the box with most of the standard Unix modules.
• We formed a Working Group to improve the macOS-specific support in Ansible.
• We have a macOS pinboard, subscribe to it to stay informed!

Community

Name	GitHub (+ IRC)	Role	Affiliation
Abhijeet Kasurde	akasurde	Reviewer	Red Hat/Ansible
Kyle Benson	kyleabenson / kbenson	Reviewer	Red Hat
Chris Short	chris-short / ChrisShort	Member	Red Hat
Martin Migasiewicz	martinm82	Reviewer	Independent
Gijs Key	gmkey	Reviewer	Independent
Jeff Geerling	geerlingguy	Member	Red Hat/Ansible

Add yourself to this list as a Reviewer (help review PRs) or as a Member (discuss issues/roadmap).

Ideas

• Add See Also sections to macOS modules referring related modules and websites
• Add macOS documentation (cfr. intro_bsd) #16178
• Fixes to existing modules to add macOS support
• Improvements to macOS-specific facts
• Move macOS-specific modules to its own directory structure (e.g. system/macos/ and packaging/macos/)

Action plan

v2.8 release

• New macOS modules:

  • homebrew_bundle -- @danieljaouen #46401
  • launchd -- @martinm82 #45541
  • macos_pref -- @kinglouie #35683

• Add missing integration tests to existing modules:

  • macports
  • homebrew
  • homebrew_cask
  • homebrew_tap

• Review open pull-requests --

  • open PRs macports
  • open PRs macos

• Review open issues --

  • open issues macports
  • open issues macos

future

• TBD

Links

• Managing your Macbook with Ansible
• Mac Development Ansible Playbook
• Role to manage your Mac with Ansible