- 1. macOS Configuration
- 2. Visual Studio Code
- 3. Podman Desktop
- 4. Git
- 5. Python Development Tools
- 6. Java Development Tools
- 7. React Development Tools
- iTerm2
- Homebrew
- Install Homebrew
$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" - Run these commands in your terminal to add Homebrew to your PATH:
$ echo >> ~/.zprofile $ echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> ~/.zprofile $ eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
- Run the following command to confirm your installation
$ brew help
- Install Homebrew
- Download VS Code
- Insall VS Code Extenstions:
- Python
- Extension Pack for Java
- Spring Boot Extension Pack
- Prettier - Code formatter
- Rainbow CSV
- GitLens — Git supercharged
- Markdown All in One
- Markdown Preview Mermaid Support
- CodeSnap
- Podman Desktop for macOS
Brew will also install the Podman Engine along with the Podman Desktop application, in case you don't have it installed yet.
$ brew install podman-desktop
- Open Podman Desktop Application within the
Applicationsdirectory, onboarding for the following extensions:- Podman
- kubectl CLI
- Compose
- Run a very basic httpd server (named basic_httpd) that serves only its index page.
$ podman run --name basic_httpd -dt -p 8080:80/tcp docker.io/nginx
- Open in browser: http://localhost:8080
- Stop and remove the httpd container:
$ podman stop basic_httpd $ podman rm basic_httpd
- Download for macOS
$ brew install git
- Check the current version of Git:
$ git -v
- Getting Started - First-Time Git Setup
- View all Git settings:
$ git config --list --show-origin
- Setup Identity:
$ git config --global user.name "Your Name" $ git config --global user.email [email protected]
- View all Git settings:
- Generating a new SSH key
- Generating a new SSH key:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]" - When you're prompted to "Enter a file in which to save the key", you can press
Enterto accept the default file location. - At the prompt, type a secure
passphrase. - Start the ssh-agent and add SSH private key to the agent:
$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)" $ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
- Generating a new SSH key:
- Adding SSH key to the ssh-agent
- First, check to see if your
~/.ssh/configfile exists in the default location.$ open ~/.ssh/config The file /Users/kevin/.ssh/config does not exist.
- If the file doesn't exist, create the file.
$ vi ~/.ssh/config - Modify the file to contain the following lines.
Host github.com AddKeysToAgent yes UseKeychain yes IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 - Add your SSH private key to the ssh-agent and store your passphrase in the keychain.
$ ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
- First, check to see if your
- Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account
- Copy the SSH public key to the clipboard:
$ pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
- GitHub > Settings > SSH and GPG keys, click
New SSH keyorAdd SSH key.- Title:
Mac Studio - Key type:
Authentication Key - Key:
[paste your public key]
- Title:
- Test the SSH key:
$ ssh -T [email protected]
- Copy the SSH public key to the clipboard:
- Install uv with standalone installers
$ curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh - Restart your shell to check the current version of uv:
$ uv -V
- Upgrading uv
$ uv self update
- Shell autocompletion
$ echo $SHELL $ echo 'eval "$(uv generate-shell-completion zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc $ echo 'eval "$(uvx --generate-shell-completion zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc
- Restart shell for the changes to take effect:
$ exec $SHELL
- If the message
command not found: compdefappear, add the following to the beginning of the ~/.zshrc file and restart the shell again:autoload -Uz compinit compinit
- Install the latest Python version
$ uv python install
- Viewing Python installations
$ uv python list
- Run JupyterLab as a standalone tool
$ uvx jupyter lab
- Installation
$ curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash $ source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh" $ sdk version
- List the available version of Java:
$ sdk list java
- Install Eclipse Temurin™ 21 - LTS
$ sdk install java
- Check the current version of Java
$ sdk current $ java -version - Switch to Java version in this shell.
$ sdk use java 21.0.6-tem
- Configure default Java version for all shells.
$ sdk default java 21.0.6-tem
- Locate where JDK is installed:
$ readlink -f $(which java)
- Install Apache Maven:
$ sdk install maven
- Check the current version of Maven:
$ sdk current $ mvn -v
- Download Node.js
# Download and install nvm: $ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.2/install.sh | bash # in lieu of restarting the shell $ \. "$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh" # Download and install Node.js: $ nvm install --lts # Verify the Node.js version: $ node -v $ nvm current # Download and install Yarn: $ corepack enable yarn # Verify Yarn version: $ yarn -v