ferrarimarco / open-development-environment-devbox

An automatically provisioned and configured virtual machine serving as a development box

Open Development Environment: Devbox

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A Vagrant box serving as a development machine. It's automatically built using Packer and Ansible. Read the related blog post.

Part of the Open Development Environment Project.

Changelog

For a list of changes, have a look at the changelog

Dependencies

These are the dependencies required to run the box:

• Vagrant 2.0.3+
• Virtualbox 5.2.8+

How to Run

To use the box:

1. Install the dependencies
2. Run vagrant init ferrarimarco/open-development-environment-devbox to initialize a Vagrantfile for this box
3. Run vagrant up

Credentials

There is a vagrant user already configured, password: vagrant

What's inside the box

This "development box" is based on Ubuntu with an XFCE Desktop environment and includes the following tools, ready to be used:

• Ansible
• Atom editor, along with the plugins listed in the playbook
• bmon
• Chromium
• cookiecutter
• curl
• Docker
• docker-clean
• Docker Compose
• Dockerlint
• Eclipse with the plugins that the ferrarimarco.eclipse Ansible role installs by default
• Github Changelog Generator
• Git
• glogg
• hadolint
• Imagemagick
• Inspec
• Java 8 (OpenJDK)
• JMeter
• Libreoffice Calc
• Liquibase
• Maven 3
• Nano
• Nethogs
• Oracle SQL Developer: see note below
• pgAdmin4
• pip
• PSScriptAnalyzer
• Python
• Ruby (with ruby-install and chruby)
• Shellcheck
• Subversion

Bash aliases

The following aliases are automatically set up during the provisioning process:

• changelog-generator: to run Github Changelog Generator
• docker-clean: to run docker-clean
• dockerfile-lint: to run hadolint and dockerlint on every Dockerfile in the current directory and its subdirectories
• git-log1, git-log2, git-log3: see open-development-environment-git for details
• pgadmin4: to start a container running pgAdmin4 in single user mode and then open a browser window pointing to it. Data is saved in an external volume mapped to /home/vagrant/.pgadmin4
• psscriptanalyzer: to run PSScriptAnalyzer on every Powershell script in the current directory and its subdirectories
• shellcheck: to run Shellcheck on every shell script in the current directory and its subdirectories

Example Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ferrarimarco/open-development-environment-devbox"
  config.vm.network "private_network", type: "dhcp"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", 4]
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--clipboard", "bidirectional"]
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", 4096]
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "on"]
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "on"]
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--vram", "128"] # 10 MB is the minimum to enable Virtualbox seamless mode

    # Display the VirtualBox GUI
    v.gui = true
  end
end

Contributions

If you have suggestions, please create a new GitHub issue or pull request.

Manual Build

Dependencies

• runtime dependencies listed above
• GNU Make 4.1+
• Packer 1.2.1+

Build

1. Install the dependencies
2. Clone the repository
3. Run make

Testing

Dependencies

• Bundler 1.13.0+
• Ruby 2.3.0+
• Docker 1.12.0+
• See Gemfile

Setup

Ssee .travis.yml

Manual Downloads

Due to licensing reasons, we cannot include the SQL Developer setup package. Download it manually from Oracle Website and place it in provisioning/downloads/ and update sql_developer_path value in the variables section of the template (or provide your own variables file).