Vagrant development box

This box is a starting point for new projects. This box has been tested on OSX, it should work on Linux and it might work on Windows.

Prerequisites

These are things you need to install once on your machine to use this box.

1. Virtualbox

2. Vagrant

3. vagrant-vbguest

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
   

Starting a new project

To start a new project run:

curl https://raw.github.com/nhhagen/vagrant-dev-box/master/setup.sh | bash -s <new repo url> <dir>

Only one project member needs to do this.

If you want a simple command at hand to start new projects off this box run:

echo "function newproject { curl https://raw.github.com/nhhagen/vagrant-dev-box/master/setup.sh | bash -s $@ ; }" >> ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.bash_profile

You can now run:

newproject <new repo url> <directory>

SaltStack is used to install software to change what is installed have a look at the documentation. For a quicker provisioning process you should remove software that you do not need in your project.

If you have personal configuration needs or tools you need installed that are not used by the project. e.g: custom dotfiles. Create a ~/.vagrant.d/Vagrantfile and call provisioning to install your config/tools.

Your project might need to expose servers to the host OS (so that you can open websites in a brower etc). To forward a port open the Vagrantfile a line like this:

config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: <port nr>, host: <port nr>

Each project menber can now clone the new repo

git clone <repo url>

Starting the box

vagrant up
vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant

This will place you inside the directory shared with the host OS.

Stopping the box

vagrant halt

This will shutdown the virtual machine.

Programming environments

• node
• ruby (2.1)
• python (2.7)
• java (7)

Tools

• yo
  • generator-angular
  • generator-ember
  • generator-webapp
• grunt
• bower
• compass
• sass
• maven
• tmux
• screen
• curl
• wget