Vagrant box to jump-start Django projects

Effortlessly bootstrap new Django projects, using Vagrant and Cookiecutter Django.

Features

• Vagrantfile for Ubuntu Trusty (14.04.04 LTS) VirtualBox VM.

• Isolated Python 3.5.1 virtualenv using pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv.

• Cookiecutter Django project dependencies pip installed, suitable for development.

• Fully operational PostgreSQL database, with the same name as the project slug.

• Completely hands-off. After running vagrant up simply browse to http://localhost:8000 to see the live app.

• Extra features, courtesy of Cookiecutter Django:

  • If you opted for Grunt:

    • LiveReload support (just install the appropriate extension)
    • Automatic Sass compilation
    • CSS autoprefixing and minification

  • Alternatively, if you opted for Gulp:

    • LiveReload support (just install the appropriate extension)
    • Automatic Sass compilation
    • CSS autoprefixing and minification
    • Javascript minification (everything in /static/js)
    • Lossless image optimization (everything in /static/images)

Usage

$ git clone https://github.com/kappataumu/vagrant-django-cookie-dough
$ cd vagrant-django-cookie-dough
$ vim cookiestrap.sh

# You should now customize all of these.

domain_name="example.com"
project_slug="cookiestrap"
db_user='db_user'
db_password='db_pass'

cookiecutter_options=(
    "project_name=My project name"
    "project_slug=$project_slug"
    "author_name=Your Name"
    "email=Your email"
    "description=A short description of the project."
    "domain_name=$domain_name"
    "version=0.1.0"
    "timezone=UTC"
    "use_whitenoise=y"
    "use_celery=n"
    "use_mailhog=n"
    "use_sentry_for_error_reporting=n"
    "use_opbeat=n"
    "use_pycharm=n"
    "windows=n"
    "use_python2=n"
    "use_docker=n"
    "use_heroku=n"
    "js_task_runner=Grunt"
    "use_lets_encrypt=n"
    "open_source_license=MIT"
)

$ vagrant up

There's a blog post as well, see Jump-starting Django projects with Vagrant and Cookiecutter.