Automation

Background

Vagrant and VirtualBox (or some other VM provider) can be used to quickly build or rebuild virtual servers.

This repository contains the Ansible automation code to provision a simple Nginx, MySQL and PHP (the 'EMP' part of 'LEMP') environment.

Applications available

• LEMP (Linux Nginx 1.4, MySQL, and PHP-fpm 7.0) installed
  • MySQL connection details:
    • host: localhost
    • port: 3306
    • dbname: dohernandez
    • username: dohernandez
    • password: dohernandez

Note

To enable the php 5.6 version you should edit the file "vars/all.yml".

php5x:
    install: '0'
    
by default, the php 5.6 version is disable

php5x:
    install: '1'
    

• Composer installed
• XDebug
• MongoDB
  • MongoDB connection details:
    • host: localhost
    • port: 27017
• Redis

Before starting

VM settings

To edit additional configuration options exposes in VirtualBox-powered Vagrant environments,
copy the config/box_setting.dist.yml to config/box_setting.yml and edit the file.

Ansible settings

To edit where Ansible can find its commands to run during the vagrant provision, copy the config/box_setting.dist.yml to config/box_setting.yml and edit the file.

Software

Make sure you have the following software installed in your machine. If running OSX, just follow the instructions below.

• Virtualbox
• Vagrant >=1.8.1
• Git

OSX Must-haves

Homebrew and Cask make it very easy to install software on OSX.

# Install Homebrew
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

# Install Cask
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask

# Install git
brew install git

# Install virtualbox
brew cask install virtualbox

# Install vagrant and plugins
brew cask install vagrant
vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager

Getting Started

To get started developing:

1. Clone this repository somewhere.
2. Cd into the repository
3. Run vagrant up to get the VM running.
4. Your application code go into src/<app name>, ex: src/laravel.
5. Your public files go into src/<app name>/public, ex: src/laravel/public.