manageiq-vagrant-dev

Vagrantfile and scripts to start a developer environment for ManageIQ Vagrant.

Introduction

The script is currently designed in the following way:

• Your should clone the environment into an empty directory with all the scripts in it (i.e. ~/Vagrant/manageiq-vagrant-dev)
• The script makes some suppositions
  • Vagrant is installed
  • Ansible is installed in your host machine
  • Virtualbox or other virtualization solution is installed

The process

The Vagrant file will create a VM using fedora31-cloud as a basis and proceed to configure it for development:

• Configure the VM with 6 GB and 2 CPU
• Open port 3000 for UI management
• Open port 4000 for API management
• Copy the contents of ~/workspace/manageiq to /manageiq inside the appliance
• Install python (needed by Ansible) so the Ansible playbook.yml can be run
• Configure the OS and install everything needed for development
• Configure the database, start and enable it and add the user needed
• Configure rbenv and install ruby 2.6.5
• Verify if reboot is necessary and then reboot the machine

Limitations

It won't run bin/setup to download the gems and run the database migration, so you can test them. It won't execute bin/rails evm:start to start the service that you will find in localhost:3000 Synchronization is only done once because the strategy is rsync (you need to call vagrant rsync to resynchronize)

Adapting the Vagrantfile

• You can add additional folders to be synchronized
• It is possible to use other synchronization strategies. Many of them allow bidirectional synchronization so you can see your changes in real time
• You can change the resources in the VM