In order to simplify the process of getting started and to unify the experience for all participants regardless of operating system, we've decided to instruct all participants to set up a virtual machine as their dev environment.
Fortunately, vagrant is a DevOps tool designed to automate & streamline the process of spinning up and provisioning Virtual Machines. All the user needs is a Vagrantfile (which has been checked into this repo) and a simple vagrant command (vagrant up) will initialize a Cent OS Virtual Machine and even automatically install the required tools, such as git, rbenv, ruby, and aws cli.
I've tested these instructions successfully on Windows and Mac OS X.
In order to simplify the process of getting started and to unify the experience for all participants regardless of operating system, we've decided to instruct all participants to set up a virtual machine as their dev environment.
Fortunately,
vagrantis a DevOps tool designed to automate & streamline the process of spinning up and provisioning Virtual Machines. All the user needs is aVagrantfile(which has been checked into this repo) and a simplevagrantcommand (vagrant up) will initialize a Cent OS Virtual Machine and even automatically install the required tools, such asgit,rbenv,ruby, andawscli.I've tested these instructions successfully on Windows and Mac OS X.