jielabs / startup

The documents and Vagrant files to setup a full-stack development environment

startup

###Objective:

• The documentation of setting up a full-stack collaborative development environment for a software project.
• Vagrant files to install essential tools in virtualbox.

###What do you need:

• Dev machines, Operating systems
• Domains
• Servers
  • Virtual Private Server (VPS)
  • Cloud computing platform
• Development tools
  • Langauge
    • C++, Java, Python, etc.
  • Development tool
    • make, maven, pybuilder, virtualenv, lint, etc.
  • IDE
    • Vim, Emacs, Eclipse, XCode, Visual Studio, etc.
  • Framework, SDK, libraries
    • Django, Jquery, Node.js, Andriod SDK, Hadoop, Protobuf, Google Maps API, etc.
  • Databases
    • RDBM or NoSQL
  • System tools
    • Memcached, Redis, RabbitMQ, Vagrant, etc.
  • Web server
    • Nginx or Apache
• Source code management system (SCM)
  • Git, Subversion
  • Code search
  • Code review
  • Code coverage
• Project management software
  • Agile development management
    • Planning and scheduling
    • Issue tracking
  • Document management
    • Twiki, Google Docs
  • Comparison
• Continuous integration
  • Build, Test, Release
  • Comparison
• Deployment and Automation
  • Puppet, Chef, etc.

Self-hosted Solutions

The below lists my choice for self-hosted development platform.

Operating systems, virtual machines and cloud

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • A popular Linux distribution
• Virtualbox
  • Free VM software for all major platforms
• Vagrant
  • Vagrant allows you to share the vm images
• Virtual Private Server
  • DigitalOcean
    • Easy to use, friendly for developers, as cheap as $5/month
  • Linode
    • A leading VPS company.

Development tools

• Editor and IDE
  • Vim, Emacs, Eclipse
• Language
  • Python, C++, R
• Serialization
  • Protobuf
• Vagrant
  • An open-source software for creating and configuring virtual development environments. Very handly to set up the dev environment on VMs or VPS/Cloud.
  • Vagrant for Digital Ocean
  • Vagrant for AWS

Source code management system

• Git
  • A popular distributed SCM
  • SourceTree: A git GUI
  • Git tutorials
    • https://www.atlassian.com/git
• GitLab
  • An alternative to github, open source, but hosted by yourself.
  • DigitalOcean has a pre-installed vm image to setup a gitlab in a minute.
  • Install GitLab using Chef solo

Continuous Integration

• Jenkins
  • A popular CI tool. Easy to install and use.

Cloud-based solution:

• Cloud Computing Platforms
  • OpenStack
    • Open source cloud computing platform
  • Amazon AWS
    • Market Leader
  • Google Compute Engine *
    • Made by Google
• GitHub
  • A popular git hosting service and developer's community
• Atlassian
  • Pretty much everything you need for collaborative development enviornment
• Thoughtworks
• Code review
  • http://gerrithub.io