Pivotal Workstation Setup Scripts

Pivotal Workstation Setup is a tool that automates the process of setting up a new Mac OS X software development machine using simple Bash scripting. It heavily relies on homebrew.

Installing

Find this tool on GitHub at https://github.com/pivotal/workstation-setup

Goals

The primary goal of this project is to give people a simple script they can run to make their Mac OS X machine prepared and standardized for working on software development projects, especially those common at Pivotal/Tanzu Labs.

Anti-goals

This project does not aim to do everything. Some examples:

• We don’t install everything that your project needs. These scripts should only install generally useful things, and prefer running quickly over being complete.
• We avoid setting up and maintaining overly-custom configurations. When there is already a tool that will get us something in a conventional manner, such as Oh My Zsh, we prefer to use it instead of doing things ourselves.

Why did we do it this way?

• A bash script is easy for users to edit locally on-the-fly for small temporary tweaks
• Everything is in one repository
• The project name is informative
• It is easy to fork and customize
• It has limited requirements: git and bash available on macOS by default

This tool is currently maintained by Joe Moore.