cnx-vagrant

Use vagrant to set up a virtual box development virtual machine (VM) with:

• webview
• cnx-archive
• cnx-authoring
• cnx-publishing
• accounts

INSTALL

A tested version of the VM is available on atlas.hashicorp.com, you can see the release notes at https://atlas.hashicorp.com/karenc/boxes/cnx-dev-vm.

To download the cnx development VM from atlas.hashicorp.com:

1. Download vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

2. vagrant init karenc/cnx-dev-vm

3. vagrant up

4. Edit your /etc/hosts file to include this line:

   10.11.12.13        cnx-dev-vm.org
   

5. Go to http://cnx-dev-vm.org:8000/ for the cnx site.

TAKE SNAPSHOTS

To take a snapshot of the VM, for example before an upgrade, you can install vagrant-vbox-snapshot:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbox-snapshot

To take a snapshot:

vagrant snapshot take "before-upgrade"

UPDATE THE VM

Once you have the VM running, you might need to update the code once in a while. You can run the following to update the code and restart all the services in the VM:

vagrant ssh
# TODO
sudo /etc/init.d/cnx-dev-vm restart

CHECK VM STATUS

You can use vagrant status to check the status of the VM. You'll see something similar to this:

Current machine states:

default                   running (virtualbox)

The VM is running. To stop this VM, you can run `vagrant halt` to
shut it down forcefully, or you can run `vagrant suspend` to simply
suspend the virtual machine. In either case, to restart it again,
simply run `vagrant up`.

DELETE THE VM

If you don't want the VM anymore, you can do vagrant destroy in the directory with the Vagrantfile and it should remove the VM.

USAGE

Either you can use the development VM directly or you might just use some of the services. For example, if you are a frontend developer, you may have webview installed locally and use archive, authoring, publishing and accounts from the VM so you don't have to set them up.

Webview is running at http://cnx-dev-vm.org:8000/

Archive is running at http://cnx-dev-vm.org:6543/

Authoring is running at http://cnx-dev-vm.org:8080/

Publishing is running at http://cnx-dev-vm.org:6544/

Accounts is running at https://cnx-dev-vm.org:3000/. There is already an admin user added with username admin and password password.

CREATE A VM FROM VAGRANTFILE

If you don't want to use the version on atlas.hashicorp.com, you can create the VM yourself:

1. Download vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

2. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/karenc/cnx-vagrant.git

3. cd cnx-vagrant

4. Create the vm: vagrant up (takes quite a long time)

5. Edit your /etc/hosts file to include this line:

   10.11.12.13        cnx-dev-vm.org
   

6. Go to http://cnx-dev-vm.org:8000/ for the cnx site.

PACKAGE THE VM

Once you have created the VM, look for the VirtualBox machine name. (On my machine, it's in ~/VirtualBox VMs)

1. Shutdown the vm: vagrant halt
2. vagrant package --base <virtual-box-vm-name> --vagrantfile cnx-dev-vm-Vagrantfile
3. vagrant box add karenc/cnx-dev-vm package.box
4. vagrant box list should show karenc/cnx-dev-vm
5. In another directory, try downloading the VM: vagrant init karenc/cnx-dev-vm
6. vagrant up
7. Go to http://cnx-dev-vm.org:8000/ for the cnx site.
8. Follow this guide to upload the box to atlas.hashicorp.com: https://vagrantcloud.com/docs/providers (look for UPLOAD A .BOX FOR PROVIDER)
9. Delete the local box: vagrant box remove karenc/cnx-dev-vm