nodejs-vagrant

Provisions a clean Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit server instance with all needed Node.js development tools (Node.js, git, vim); services (MongoDB, Redis, GitHub, Heroku, Travis-CI).

Install Vagrant & VirtualBox

Install Vagrant 1.5:

http://vagrantup.com

Install VirtualBox:

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Setup Option 1: Box

mkdir DIR && cd DIR
vagrant init cbumgard/nodejs
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Done!

For more see: https://vagrantcloud.com/cbumgard/nodejs

Setup Option 2: Vagrantfile

git clone [email protected]:cbumgard/nodejs-vagrant.git
cd nodejs-vagrant
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Done!

Post-Setup

Vagrant user

By default the vagrant user is configured with password 'vagrant'. The vagrant user is also configured for password-less sudo.

Edit code on host machine, build in VM

Your ~/ home directory on your host machine is synced to the /host/ directory inside of Vagrant. So for example you can edit code in ~/code/ on your laptop and build it inside a Vagrant shell inside /host/code.

Networking:

Configured for private network on static IP: 192.168.33.10, with port :3000 forwarded.

So from a web browser you have two ways of accessing a node.js process for example running on port 3000 on the VM:

• localhost:3000
• 192.168.33.10:3000

Additionally for convenience, append this line to your /etc/hosts file:

192.168.33.10 vagrant.localhost

Services

MongoDB & Redis

Verify from CLI by running mongo and redis-cli.

GitHub

ssh-keygen -t rsa
(Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub into your GitHub account: https://github.com/settings/ssh)
git config --global user.name '<your name>'
git config --global user.email <your email>

Heroku

Run the following commands to finish setting up Heroku:
heroku login
heroku keys:add

Travis-CI

travis login or travis login --pro

Troubleshooting

Included is a script ./sh/repair-mac.sh that fixes the problem that occurs (usually after a forced reboot) where the following error shows up on 'vagrant up':

There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant
for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: ["hostonlyif", "create"]

Stderr: 0%...
Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE
VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the host-only adapter
VBoxManage: error: VBoxNetAdpCtl: Error while adding new interface: failed to open /dev/vboxnetctl: No such file or directory
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component HostNetworkInterface, interface IHostNetworkInterface
VBoxManage: error: Context: "int handleCreate(HandlerArg*, int, int*)" at line 66 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp

License

MIT