community.general.mas – Manage Mac App Store applications with mas-cli

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.mas.

New in version 0.2.0: of community.general

Synopsis

• Installs, uninstalls and updates macOS applications from the Mac App Store using the mas-cli.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• macOS 10.11+

• mas-cli (https://github.com/mas-cli/mas) 1.5.0+ available as mas in the bin path

• The Apple ID to use already needs to be signed in to the Mac App Store (check with mas account).

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
id list / elements=integer		The Mac App Store identifier of the app(s) you want to manage. This can be found by running mas search APP_NAME on your machine.
state string	Choices: absent latest present ←	Desired state of the app installation. The absent value requires root permissions, also see the examples.
upgrade_all boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Upgrade all installed Mac App Store apps. aliases: upgrade

Notes

Note

• This module supports check_mode.

Examples

- name: Install Keynote
  community.general.mas:
    id: 409183694
    state: present

- name: Install Divvy with command mas installed in /usr/local/bin
  community.general.mas:
    id: 413857545
    state: present
  environment:
    PATH: /usr/local/bin:{{ ansible_facts.env.PATH }}

- name: Install a list of apps
  community.general.mas:
    id:
      - 409183694 # Keynote
      - 413857545 # Divvy
    state: present

- name: Ensure the latest Keynote version is installed
  community.general.mas:
    id: 409183694
    state: latest

- name: Upgrade all installed Mac App Store apps
  community.general.mas:
    upgrade_all: yes

- name: Install specific apps and also upgrade all others
  community.general.mas:
    id:
      - 409183694 # Keynote
      - 413857545 # Divvy
    state: present
    upgrade_all: yes

- name: Uninstall Divvy
  community.general.mas:
    id: 413857545
    state: absent
  become: yes # Uninstallation requires root permissions

Authors

• Michael Heap (@mheap)

• Lukas Bestle (@lukasbestle)