Vagrant Developer's Toolbox

This repository contains a set of Vagrant boxes for common development languages (PHP, Ruby, Node.js) and databases (MySQL, MongoDB).

How to use

Every directory, except the common ansible, contains a template box. To make you own box:

• copy the directory with the box you need,
• copy the role you need from the shared ansible/roles to [yourbox]/ansible/roles,
• customize the box and playbook settings,
• run vagrant up and start coding.

A sample project directory can be structured like:

/home/[username]/Projects/my-project
   |-build
   |-config
   |-db
   |---dev
   |---prod
   |-ansible
   |---roles
   |-----[roles dirs]
   |---playbook.yml
   |-shell
   |---bootstrap.sh
   |-src
   |---[your app code]
   |-tests
   |-webroot
   |-Vagrantfile

Requirements

• Ansible 2.x and related dependencies
• Vagrant 2.2.x and related dependencies
• VirtualBox

Vagrant Tips

Download VirtualBox guest additions from: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/x.x.x/VBoxGuestAdditions_x.x.x.iso

Disable Guest additions in your box with:

config.vbguest.auto_update = false
config.vbguest.no_install = true
config.vbguest.no_remote = true

Useful Vagrant plugins

• vagrant-hostmanager: manages the /etc/hosts file on guest machines (and optionally the host)
• vagrant-dns: allows you to configure a dns-server managing a development subdomain
• vagrant-cachier: caches package managers files
• vagrant-remove-old-box-versions
• vagrant-share (provides virtualbox filesystem for synced folders)
• vagrant-vbguest (automatically installs/updates Guest Additions on boot)