Description

This repo serves as a starting point to manage a general development environment for creating ruby, java, nodejs and go applications. It provides service installations to be accessed by your applications.

Services

The current version installs the following services on the VM:

• PostgreSQL - Documentation
• Mongodb - Documentation
• Redis - Documentation
• RabbitMQ - Documentation

All services can be accessed from the host system using their default ports and the host 127.0.0.1. For a list of forwarded ports please refer to the Vagrantfile.

For a general description about database technologies and choice please have a look here.

!!! And please never use Redis to store persistent data. Redis should be used only as a cache !!!

Prerequisites

• Install Virtualbox or install VmWare
• Install Vagrant

!!! Install vagrant plugins !!!

The Chef provisioner will only run correctly when the vagrant-librarian-chef-nochef plugin is installed correctly.

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
vagrant plugin install vagrant-librarian-chef-nochef

Startup

# clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/julweber/dudebox_dev_env.gits

# enter the directory
cd dudebox_dev_env

# start the vagrant machine
vagrant up

# ssh into the machine when the provisioning process has finished
vagrant ssh

Reprovisioning

When making changes to the Cheffile and Vagrantfile please reprovision the VM using the following commands:

vagrant up
vagrant provision

Shared folders

The workspace folder is mounted to the VM under /vagrant/workspace. Put your files (sources, ...) in this folder to be able to access the files from your guest and host systems.

Default Service Authentication

• PostgreSQL: User: postgres ; password: test123!
• MongoDB: auth disabled -> all connections accepted
• Redis: auth disabled -> all connections accepted
• RabbitMQ: User: guest ; password: guest

Troubleshooting

Errors on reprovisioning

Error message: "Shared folders that chef requires are missing ...."

rm .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/synced_folders
vagrant reload --provision

Operating behind a Proxy

Install the vagrant-proxyconf plugin

$> vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf

Add the proxy configuration to your Vagrantfile

if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-proxyconf")
  config.proxy.http     = "http://192.168.0.2:3128/" # exchange correct http proxy here
  config.proxy.https    = "http://192.168.0.2:3128/" # exchange correct https proxy here
  config.proxy.no_proxy = "localhost,127.0.0.1,.example.com"
end

Windows Command log_filename

Please execute the commands above in a command line instance with administrator rights.

SSH into the machine without using the vagrant client

You can use a normal ssh client (command line, putty, ...) to ssh into the virtual machine. The user and password is vagrant.

ssh -p 2222  [email protected] # pw: vagrant