[dev] Vagrant Configuration

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> For a speech I will be giving in a few weeks, I have personal need  
>> for a way to quickly setup a test Horde setup with the latest git  
>> master code.  Since I'll likely be on a Windows machine, Docker is  
>> not an option.  Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/) is the way to go.
>>
>> I created a repo and pushed my initial work today to it:
>>
>> https://github.com/slusarz/horde-dev-vagrant
>>
>> The image is based on Ubuntu 14.04.  PHP 5.5 latest is installed,  
>> and the default Ubuntu Apache installation is used for HTTP.
>>
>> Note that currently Horde Groupware apps (and all required and  
>> optional dependencies) are installed in the image, but Horde itself  
>> isn't configured.  That's next.
>>
>> Pretty cool - if you have vagrant installed on your machine, all  
>> you have to do is clone that repo, cd into the directory, and run  
>> "vagrant up".
>>
>> Can see this being useful for 2 separate use cases in the future:
>>
>> 1. Demo purposes.  Since Horde is provisioned using the most  
>> up-to-date code, this gives a user a chance to test out new  
>> features without the need for someone to roll a new release.
>>
>> 2. Bug fixing.  More advanced users can use the image directly to  
>> bug fix, without messing around with setting up a local development  
>> environment.  And less advanced users can use the image to test  
>> whether their bug is reproducible on an environment other than  
>> their own.
>
> This looks great! In the early days of the LLC, during one of our  
> hackathons, Ben K. did some similar work with Puppet to get a full  
> environment up and running - I can't find the resulting script, but  
> if you're interested you should contact him.

Sound great indeed. Could as well get into the official repo.

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Jan Schneider
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