Develop with less fear! Quickly provision a clean virtual environment kitted out for development.
Attempting to keep your OS clean of the cruft that builds up during software
development is a near impossible task. hermit-crab automates the drudge work
of building new 'disposable' environments.
It uses Vagrant with Ansible to manage the configuration and provisioning of a virtual machine for development. It's a recipe that reflects my preferences and opinions, but will hopefully mature into a project that could be forked and easily adjusted to another's tastes.
- Debian 8 "Jessie"
- Dirt simple Ansible scripts written with a single user/machine in mind
- Minimal i3-wm
- VirtualBox Guest Additions
- Avahi to register itself on LAN at
hermit.local - Ruby, NodeJS, and Java 8 runtimes
- rbenv, nvm, lein, boot-clj
- dotfiles and useful
~/bintools - Vim + Emacs!
$ git clone https://github.com/tvjg/hermit-crab
$ cd hermit-crab
$ vagrant up
Reboot for VirtualBox Guest Additions to take effect.
$ vagrant reload
The VM is configured to run with a GUI. You can enter the default
username/password vagrant:vagrant on the login screen. Alternately, use
vagrant ssh from the project directory.
- Add project repository list to pull on provision
- Extract more configuration to vars
- Add Ansible tags to toggle package configuration
- Make it easy to share SSH keys from host
- Enable unattended security updates
- Investigate alternate desktop environments
- Restore ansible workaround for Windows
- Avahi instructions for Windows