Setup VMWare Box for Laravel

Homestead is amazing but I need something more inline with the servers we work on.

The scripts that follow are like the ones we use to buidl the servers, nginx etc. So we can know that our local VM is setup the same way.

Some feature missing for now

• Port forwarding on VM to Windows/Mac/Linux
• Vagrant install script

Here is an example of a workflows

Step 1) Setup the VM Once

Download and install VM (Virtual box or VMWare) Setup it up per the notes below Once in there run, only needed once, the ansible scripts to set it all up

• ubuntu.yml
• nginx.yml
• mmysql.yml

Step 2) Add Sites when you need them

Finally when you want to work on a site

• log in to the vm
• git clone your site into the ~/Code folder
• run `create_site.yml' with the needed vars
• point your Windows/Mac/Linux box host file to the ip of the Vm

Now for the detail install workflow

VM Setup Manual Steps

• Setup VMWare using Ubuntu 14.04 (username ubuntu)
• Make sure user has passwordless sudu
• apt-get install openssh-server
• Set Network to Bridge
• Make sure you setup Ansible 2 in the VM

Sudo Setup

Using visudo add

alfrednutile ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Of course @TODO alfrednutile === ubuntu like our servers

Network to Bridge

Under Edit in the top menu of the VM Software (VMWare) or in settings of the VM (VMWare) there is Virtual Network Manager there you will see Bridged, then just make sure it references your Wireless card.

VMWare install tools

In the menu of VMWare VM click Install Tools

then in the vm mkdir /mnt/foo

then mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/foo

cp /mnt/foo/VMWareTools* /opt

tar xzvf VMWare*

then cd vmware-tools-distrib

Folder Share

Click on the VM (After you install the VM Tools)

VMWare

And click Settings-->Options-->Shared Folder

This will be in your linux box (maybe need to reboot) under /mnt/hsgf

Then I symlink /mnt/msgf/Users/ubuntu/Code ~/Code so it is in my home folder.

VirtualBox

@TODO write this up

Windows Host File

http://www.sysprobs.com/how-to-edit-host-file-in-windows-8-1-8

Ansible

On the VM

Setup 2.x version

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ansible

As noted above there are several files this is how your run each one, except the create_site.yml since that one needs more settings.

cd ansible and follow the below items

ansible-playbook -i "local," -c local ubuntu.yml

• ubuntu.yml
• nginx.yml
• mmysql.yml

MySQL

It is root/password so just keep that in mind as you go

Create Site

The goal is to create a defail nginx site.

This setup assumes you have downloaded your github repo in the the /home/username/Code/repo_name folder

ansible-playbook -i "local," -c local create_site.yml --extra-vars="sitefolder=foo2 sitename=baz.dev"

Will build our your site, database, setup your internal hosts file.

Roadmap / TODO

Local DynamoDB Dev Setup

TODO

Move most of this into vagrant Set around a generic user name Get Folder Sharing setup Better sharing of ssh keys