Ansible playbook for fixing up a Mac Dock using dockutil

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# Based on https://blog.vandenbrand.org/2016/01/04/how-to-automate-your-mac-os-x-setup-with-ansible/
#
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Current Dock names
      shell: >
        dockutil --list |
        python -c 'import sys; [sys.stdout.write(line.split("\t")[0] + "\n")
        for line in sys.stdin]'
      register: dockitems
      changed_when: false
    - set_fact:
        x: '{{ dockitems_to_remove | intersect(dockitems.stdout_lines) }}'
    - name: Remove Dock items
      shell: dockutil --remove '{{ item }}'
      with_items: '{{ x }}'
    - set_fact: y='{{ dockitems_to_persist|map(attribute="name")|list }}'
    - set_fact:
        x: '{{ y | difference(dockitems.stdout_lines) }}'
    - name: Add Dock items
      shell: >
        dockutil --find '{{ item.name }}' ||
        dockutil --add '{{ item.path }}'
      with_items: '{{ dockitems_to_persist }}'
      when: '{{ x != [] }}'
#
# dockutil is installed via brew
#
# Variables needed look like this:
#
# dockitems_to_remove:
#   - Launchpad
#   - Contacts
#   - Notes
#   - Reminders
#   - Maps
#   - Pages
#   - Photos
#   - FaceTime
#   - iBooks
#   - App Store
#   - System Preferences
#
# dockitems_to_persist:
#   - name: VirtualBox
#     path: /Applications/VirtualBox.app
#   - name: Terminal
#     path: /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app