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Another project that uses the same tools (Ansible/Homebrew) to accomplish the same/similar goals:

https://github.com/32degrees/battleschool

If you're going to do this on a wider scale (multiple machines, managed in an organization), the best tools right now are AutoPKG and Munki:

https://github.com/autopkg/autopkg http://code.google.com/p/munki/

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I looked into battleschool. The way it overally works seems better (having it's own command and a simple config with just a dotfile) but I really like ansible roles and I really enjoy using brew and brew cask to install everything, it's more neat and more undoable than using a pkg command directly. For now, I don't know which design I'll choose but I still like using the ansible-playbook command. I don't want to hide the internal mechanics of my tool. Ansible is great ! I still want to use it !

thanks ! That's exactly what I was looking for when I started to create osxc ! I will look into it. In fact osxc should more be seen as a set of roles than anything else, so I think it can be easily plugged with an existing solution such as battleschool.

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