Ansible Playbooks for Osaka University DH Lab iMacs

Manages configuration and software installations for lab macOS workstations.

Inventory

Target machines are defined in inventory/imacs - currently includes:

• 1 Mac Mini (2021)
• 18 iMacs (2022 models)

Usage

Basic playbook execution:

ansible-playbook -i inventory/imacs dhlab-playbook.yml --ask-become-pass

Key tagged operations:

# Tailscale VPN setup
ansible-playbook -i inventory/imacs dhlab-playbook.yml --tags tailscale

# Brew package management
ansible-playbook -i inventory/imacs dhlab-playbook.yml --tags brew

# GUI application management
ansible-playbook -i inventory/imacs dhlab-playbook.yml --tags cask

# System updates
ansible-playbook -i inventory/imacs dhlab-playbook.yml --tags system_update

Key Functionalities

• System configuration (SSH, SMB, sudo)
• Developer tools (Xcode, Homebrew, Python, Node.js)
• Scientific stack (R/RStudio, Julia, Jupyter, NLP tools)
• GUI applications (iTerm2, VS Code, RStudio, Zoom)
• Japanese NLP toolchain (MeCab with UniDic Extended)
• CasualConc text analysis suite

Requirements

• Ansible control node with:
  • community.general collection
  • macOS target systems with admin credentials