Homebrew

Services

Homebrew has a services aspect to it. We can run brew services list to see the services that are currently running from Homebrew. We can run brew services start to start a service.

  • ex. Redis, Postgres, vault, caddyserver

Cask

brew cask is an extension to brew that allows management of MacOS graphical applications

Tap

a Git repository of Formulae and/or commands

Keg

the installation prefix of a Formula


Installation directories

/opt/homebrew/Cellar/

CLI

Search available packages

brew search _____

See where package is installed

brew info postgresql