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Optimal vagrant developer box for Magento2. Folders synced by nfs/rsync. This box includes Magento developer utilities.

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Virtual Machine for Magento2

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Supported system:
windows apple linux

Supported release:
v2.1.* v2.2.* v2.3.* v2.4.*

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Requirements

Virtualbox

VirtualBox is an open source virtualizer, an application that can run an entire operating system within its own virtual machine.
Stable version >= 5.2.0

  1. Download the installer for your laptop operating system using the links below.
  2. Run the installer, choosing all the default options.
    • Windows: Grant the installer access every time you receive a security prompt.
    • Mac: Enter your admin password.
    • Linux: Enter your user password if prompted.
  3. Reboot your laptop if prompted to do so when installation completes.
  4. Close the VirtualBox window if it pops up at the end of the install.

Vagrant

Vagrant is an open source command line utility for managing reproducible developer environments.
Stable version >= 2.2.0

  1. Download the installer for your laptop operating system using the links below.
  2. Reboot your laptop if prompted to do so when installation completes.

Configurations

Related guide

Pre-installation

⚠ This vagrant installation is non-interactive: DO NOT USE SSH KEY WITH PASSPHRASE.
If your ssh key has been created with a passphrase, please create another one.

System Steps
Windows 1. Open UEFI BIOS and make sure virtualization is turned 'on'
2. Open powershell as administrator and run: Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess winnfsd.exe
3. Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts as administrator then add network_ip and magento_url
Default values would be: 192.168.60.0 dev.magento.com
MacOs 1. To avoid issue with guest additions, run:
sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Linux 1. To install NFS properly, run:
sudo apt install nfs-kernel-server
Linux/MacOS 2. Open /etc/hosts as sudo then add network_ip and magento_url
Default values would be: 192.168.60.0 dev.magento.com

Installation

  1. Clone this project: git clone git@github.com:zepgram/magento2-fast-vm.git
  2. Copy/past: ssh.example rename it ssh then put your id_rsa and id_rsa.pub keys
  3. Copy/past: config.yaml.example rename it config.yaml
    Then customize configurations according to Yaml config overview
  4. If you want to import an existing database: create a compressed sql dump and name it db-dump.sql.gz.
    You must also fill crypt_key in config.yaml
  5. To start install run: vagrant up (duration: ~20 minutes)
  6. Finally, run: vagrant ssh to access guest machine

Yaml config overview

Parent Node Name Default Value Allowed Value Is optional Description
vmconf machine_name Vagrant Magento 2 string no Vagrant machine name
network_ip 192.168.60.0 IP address no Accessible IP address /etc/hosts
host_name zepgram string no Virtual host name
memory 4096 number no RAM allocated
cpus 1 number no CPU allocated
mount nfs nfs / rsync / default no Mount strategy
path root app / root no Mount whole directory or app/ only
provision all all / system / magento no Define script provision
composer username magentoUsernameKey string no Composer auth user
password magentoPasswordKey string no Composer auth password
git name John Doe string yes Git user name
email john@doe.com email yes Git user email
host github.com url yes Git host server name
repository ssh://git@github.com:%.git git repository yes Define repository to clone
magento url dev.magento.com url no Magento site host name
source composer composer / (master/develop..) no Define source installation. On git install set the branch name to clone.
edition community community / enterprise no Magento project edition
version 2.4.5 >=2.2 no Magento version release
php_version default default / 7.x / 8.x no PHP version
sample true true / false no Install sample data
mode developer developer / production no Magento execution mode
currency USD ISO 4217 no Default currency
language en_US ISO 639-1 + ISO 3166 no Default language
time_zone America/New_York timezone no Default timezone
crypt_key - string yes Crypt key form app/etc/env.php for db-dump.sql.gz (db import)
search_engine opensearch opensearch / elasticsearch false Search engine for catalog search
disable_two_factor_auth true true / false false Disable 2 factor authentication for admin access

Path

  • root directory: mount the entire project.
  • app directory: mount only app directory. Not sharing generated files between machines ensure great performance but in return, source code /vendor is missing.

Mount options

RSYNC

Only useful on path set to root.

  • Loss of performance is due to files generated on the fly, by excluding them you can mount the whole directory root and get performance equal to an app mount.
  • The vagrant rsync-auto is launched by default on vagrant up, even with that if you need to force an update you can run vagrant rsync. Terminal should be kept open for rsync-auto: do not close it.
  • Rsync is unilateral, your host machine push files to guest but not the other way.
    Anyway if it's necessary, after a composer update for example, you can run vagrant rsync-back to push files from guest to host.
  • After first installation, you must run vagrant reload to enable file watching with rsync-auto.
    See Rsync option

NFS

Recommended for root and app path.
The most stable option, config has been made to ensure compliance with all OS. Less performant than rsync but files are perfectly shared between guest and host machine.

See NFS option

DEFAULT

It can be used with app path if you encountered any issue with NFS and rsync mount.

See basic usage

Extra provisions

You can add extra shell provisions.
Those provisions will be executed on pre-defined sequences:

  1. extra/001-env.sh his purpose is to provide extra environment variables or extra package, executed after script 001-system-env.sh
  2. extra/100-pre-build.sh define your specific system configuration before installation, executed after script 100-magento-pre.sh
  3. extra/120-post-build.sh you can execute magento command in this sequence, executed after script 120-magento-post.sh
  • To be executed you must remove the string -example from the filename script.
  • As an example of use, you can adapt data from your database import by using the script 100-pre-build.sh

System usage

Permission

Magento file system owner is configured for vagrant user, it means all commands in magento project must be executed by this user.
By default command line vagrant ssh will log you as vagrant user.

  • To re-apply magento permissions you can run permission directly in command line.

Command line

  • magento (Magento CLI alias)
  • magento-cloud (Magento Cloud CLI)
  • pestle (A collection of command line scripts for code generation)
  • magerun (The swiss army knife for Magento developers)
  • permission (Re-apply permissions to project)

Cron

Enable cron:

./bin/magento cron:install

Disable cron:

./bin/magento cron:remove

Configuration

Package & Software

  • php + required extensions
  • curl
  • git
  • gitflow
  • vim
  • composer
  • nginx
  • php-fpm
  • percona
  • redis-server
  • elasticsearch
  • opensearch
  • grunt
  • postfix
  • mailhog
  • pestle
  • magereun
  • adminer
  • magento-cloud cli
  • bin/magento bash completion

Access

  • User bash terminal
    • user: vagrant
  • Back-office
    • url: magento[url]/admin
    • user: magento.admin
    • pass: admin123
  • Database
    • user: vagrant
    • pass: vagrant
    • name: magento
  • Mailhog
    • url: [network_ip]:8025
  • Adminer
    • url: [network_ip]/adminer
  • Phpinfo
    • url: [network_ip]/php

Mysql

Percona server 8.0 is now installed for Magento >=2.4.0
Lower versions are handled foreach existing Magento versions.

PHP

PHP 8.2 is now installed by default for Magento >=2.4.6
Lower versions are handled foreach existing Magento versions.

Composer

Composer v2 is now installed by default for Magento >=2.4.2
Lower versions are handled foreach existing Magento versions.

Elasticsearch

Version 8.4.x of Elasticsearch is now available for Magento 2.4.6
Version 7.6.x of Elasticsearch is available for version between 2.4.0 and 2.4.5
Lower versions are handled foreach existing Magento versions
Otherwise, you can also completely disable elasticsearch by installing this module: https://github.com/zepgram/module-disable-search-engine

Opensearch

Version 2.5.x is now available for Magento 2.4.6
Elasticsearch will be installed by default on lower Magento versions.

Issues

Windows 10

There is a known issue with composer installation on windows 10.
This issue could not be solved yet, and has already been reported 2 times.

  • This is related to the computer and BIOS configuration.
  • This is only reported on "NFS" mount option.

To solve this, I recommend to set mount option to "rsync", then after full installation you should be able to fall back to NFS.

Others

If you have trouble during installation please open a new issue on this GitHub repository.