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Vagrant use

We use vagrant to ease local development around the tests on the byon installation.

pre-requisites

ruby (1.9)

sudo aptitude install ruby1.9.3 rubygems

virtualbox (4.1)

sudo aptitude virtualbox

vagrant (1.0.5)

Vagrant permits to simply orchestrate the starting and stopping or your vm running with virtualbox.

sudo gem install vagrant

vagrant-snap (0.10)

Vagrant-snap permits to simply take hot snapshot of your vm.

sudo gem install vagrant-snap virtualbox

Note

You need to add the virtualbox gem dependency because of a dependency issue on the [vagrant/vagrant-snap)[t9md/vagrant-snap#9]

ruby1.8/1.9

There are some issues about some ruby scritps that depends on the ruby 1.8. Installing both ruby1.8 and ruby1.9 creates problems.

A simple workaround is to create a symbolic link /usr/bin/ruby1.8 on /usr/bin/ruby.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/ruby

install the image

download

vagrant box add lucid64 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid64.box

This will download and install locally a fresh image (you can see this as a virtualbox ami) Now you got all you need.

boot the vm

Place yourself in your working directory.

vagrant up

connect to it

vagrant ssh

halt it

Now that you're good, you can stop the vm.

vagrant halt

snapshot

The utility of the snapshot must not be under-estimated. You can see this as git for your code.

This permits rapidly to go back in time and change a failed step by not going over every steps again.

snapshot

take

vagrant snap take vm1 -n $TAG_YOU_WANT -d $DESCRIPTION_YOU_WANT
  • the description (-d) is optional but recommended.

Example:

vagrant snap take vm1 -n app-installed-and-ok -d "app-core has been installed via puppet and is ok."

list

This command will list all your snapshots for this vm.

vagrant snap list

Here is a possible output:

[vm1]
 puppet-agent-ready [ 15658 days ] puppet-master is ready
[vm2]
 app-core-installed [ 15658 days ] app-core has been installed with the puppet agent

back to the future past

If you do snapshot, you will have eventually to restore your snapshot at some point. Here is the command.

vagrant snap go $TAG_YOU_WANT $VM_NAME

$VM_NAME is optional. If you do not give any, all your vms will be wired up to the tag $TAG_YOU_WANT.

For example:

vagrant snap go "app-installed-ok" vm1