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Creating a Development Environment using Vagrant and VirtualBox
This document outlines how you can get a development environment up and running within minutes using Vagrant and VirtualBox.
Vagrant will download a base lucid VM from the vagrant website (Note: This is a 500MB download). It can then use this VM along with puppet to create a virtual machine which it will run under VirtualBox. The virtual machine will have direct access to part of your file system so you can develop locally and browse to the VM for testing.
You will need rubygems, vagrant and virtualbox installed on your system
Instructions on installing VirtualBox can be found on the Vitualbox wiki.
To get vagrant installed
sudo aptitude install rubygems
sudo gem install vagrant
sudo gem install virtualbox
Fork zookeepr on github and clone your fork
git clone [email protected]:johnf/zookeepr
Start up the vagrant instance
export PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:$PATH
cd zookeepr/vagrant
vagrant up
This will build and start up the VM. You can get a console by running
vagrant ssh
Then run
sudo sh postinstall.sh
You will find the Zookeepr code base in /vagrant this is a shared copy of the zookeepr clone on your local machine.
For more details on how to use Vagrant for development please see the Vagrant website.
vagrant up
That's it. That will create the VM and set up everything required for a running zookeepr instance.
You can browse to it at http://localhost:8080
You can now edit code locally and it will immediately be visible to the VM. You can even view the VMs logs on your local laptop in the logs directory.
When you are finished with the VM you can do
vagrant destroy # Don't do this
However that will totally destroy it so instead you probably want one of
vagrant suspend
vagrant halt