Ansible Role: Homebrew Cask App

This Ansible role helps you install Homebrew Cask apps on macOS.

• You can run this role multiple times in your playbook, providing different information each time.
• Each Ansible task installs one cask app.
• You can add tags to each task that installs a cask app.

Requirements

• macOS version 10.13 or higher
• Ansible version 2.2 or higher

* Note: You need a newer version of Python than what comes with macOS.

Role Variables

# The name of the app you want to install as it is specified for Homebrew Cask.
cask_app_name: ""

# Any installation options you want to send to Homebrew Cask.
cask_app_install_options: ""

Dependencies

• danbohea.homebrew

Example Playbook

- hosts: all

  roles:
    # Basic example.
    - {
      cask_app_name: firefox,
      role: ansible-role-cask-app
      }
    # Example using tags.
    - {
      cask_app_name: firefox,
      tags: ["firefox", "another_tag"],
      role: ansible-role-cask-app
      }
    # Example using cask_app_install_options.
    - { 
      cask_app_name: firefox,
      cask_app_install_options: force,
      role: ansible-role-cask-app
      }

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created by Dan Bohea mostly for use with Macsible.