This Tap is intended to provide an easier way to configure new Macs (i.e. a Mac that has just had its OS fresh installed) instead of following multiple Confluence steps.
Initially it was intended to be using brew Formula to accomplish this task, but Formulas seems to have a limitation in regards to dependencies: a Formula can't depend on a Cask. For this reason, the approach was changed to use Casks instead of Formulas.
Currently, all the setup is done using existing Formulas or Casks, so the Casks provided here does not install any Mac App by itself as is expected of Brew Casks, instead it relies on a list of dependencies for other Formulas and Casks to make sure that everything that is needed is indeed installed on the Mac.
First it is necessary to install Homebrew. Information on how this can be done can be found here
To make use of these Casks, is is needed to add the Buildit Tap to your local Homebrew. This can be done with the following command:
brew tap buildit/homebrew-buildit-setup
After this, your Homebrew will be configured to "see" the Buildit tap with all its available Formulas and Casks.
Also, it will be updated/upgraded with the usual home brew update / upgrade commands.
This Cask is intended to install the base tools, not making a differentiation on programming languages/environments.
brew cask install buildit-base-tools
The following Casks and Formulas will be installed together with this Cask:
- Git (Formula)
- Bash Completion (Formula)
- Python (Formula)
- Ansible (Formula)
- Terraform (Formula)
- AWS CLI (Formula)
- Packer (Formula)
- Docker (Formula)
- Dropbox (Cask)
- Google Chrome (Cask)
- Firefox (Cask)
- Atom (Cask)
- Skype (Cask)
- Slack (Cask)
- Tunnelblick (Cask)
- Vagrant (Cask)
- Chromedriver (Cask)
This Cask is intended to install the Java based tools/environments.
Unfortunately there is a chicken-and-egg situation for this Cask.
Maven, Gradle and Tomcat Formulas require that a Java 1.7+ is already installed in the system. Even though this Cask list the Java dependencies,
these are not taken into consideration (i.e. installed) before all Formula dependencies are solved.
So to solve this problem it is necessary to install any java version using brew manually before the installation of this Cask i.e. brew cask install java
As this Cask will install different versions of JDK, it is necessary to add a new Tap to Homebrew, to make versions that are not the latest ones available:
brew tap caskroom/versions
After including the versions Tap, the buildit-java-based-tools Cask can be installed using the command:
brew cask install buildit-java-based-tools
The following Casks and Formulas will be installed:
- Maven (Formula)
- Gradle (Formula)
- Tomcat (Formula)
- Java 9 (Cask)
- Java 8 (Cask)
- Java 7 (Cask) - using Azul Systems JDK, as Oracle one is not available as a Cask anymore. More info here.
It is important to note that if any of the above Casks have already been installed outside of Homebrew environment, it will break the installation (default behaviour for any Cask).
The information about manual steps needed is displayed as Homebrew Caveats. Unfortunately this information is shown before the installation, so if there is the need to check what needs to configure after the installation finishes, just run the commands below accordingly:
brew cask info buildit-base-tools
brew cask info buildit-java-based-tools
If you are interested in contributing to this project, please:
- Fork this repo;
- make your changes;
- submit a PR.
We will try to review and give feedback as quickly as possible.