Mac OS provisioning for new employees and personal use

[tj]

As far as I know there aren't really any great tools for provisioning new employee machines, aside from Ansible, and perhaps Terraform but it's not purpose-built for this. I'd basically like a "Terraform for work machines".

[caarlos0]

FWIW tried the ansible thing... pretty hard to maintain https://github.com/caarlos0-graveyard/machine

right now I'm using dotfiles + a brewfile (https://github.com/caarlos0/macos)

[tj]

@caarlos0 hahah nice yeahhh we ended up just using shell scripts at Segment, I remember trying Ansible as well but it didn't feel any more robust

[kc-dot-io]

This is a good one. We've been prototyping something like this using an Op but it could be improved a lot.

[gittaca]

ChezMoi could also be used for that, if the employer provides a shared dotfiles repo which new employees clone & fork.