Vagrant-powered local dev environment

Here you will find Vagrantfile, related configs and scripts for local development VM.

Provision is done by Ansible. Roles used for the provision and their location is defined here in the provision/requirements.yml

Why?

Clean and transparent: all the tools are in one place, thus easy to resolve all "magical" issues about dependencies, system configs, pathes etc., you host OS is clean and not lagging after the tons of various installed apps and tools
Flexible and maintainable: Easy to re-create and re-provision the machine from scratch at any place and any time
Compatible: Code tested in this VM supposed to be working on any machine with the Linux distro defined in the Vagrantfile

You're welcome to contribute and add some useful stuff via pull requests!

You'll need

Versions above are tested and working, you can use any other for your own risk and responsibility

Launch it

Copy the dev_config.yml.template to the dev_config.yml. Define variables inside the created dev_config.yml as needed, see the inline comments for help. dev_config.yml will be ignored by git
Run vagrant up

Use it

Run vagrant ssh
Your git repositories (provided in the dev_config.yml above) will be available under /home/vagrant/gitrepo
Any dirs defined in the synced_dir_mapping of the dev_config.yml will be mounted into the VM automatically. By default Vagrant will create a share dir here in the repo. It can be used for file exchange between the host and the VM and will be available under /home/vagrant/share/ inside the VM. All the data inside the share dir is ignored by git

Configure it

You can easily add your own steps to the machine provision by creating custom.sh script inside provision dir. This script will be ignored by git

Hints

In addition to the ports forwarded explicitly via the Vagrantfile (if defined in the dev_config.yml) any network service launched inside the virtual machine will be available at the 172.16.16.16 from your host

Kill it

vagrant destroy