Using Virtual Machines (VM)To Build Automated Dev Environments

Local WordPress Development

Anthony E. Alvarez

Also known as @AnthonyEalvarez

I build siteshttp://AnthonyAlvarez.us

Case Study: RailsBridge NYC

Topics

Why Vagrant is so awesome How to get up and running fast WordPress-related Vagrant resources

Your Computer is a Beautiful Lawn

A Server is like a beach

XAMPP/MAMP is a small sandbox

Installation

Vagrant Approach

Benefits Installing WordPress development environment in a reliable,

consistent and isolated way Run a vagrant box configured exactly like production machine Your machine is not tied to one project Can customize each VM environment to match production. Can have multiple VMs on a PC. Debugging an edge issue due specific version of PHP, MySQL

etc. Separates code and environment it runs in. A more elegant solution compared to LAMP

Advantages Repeatable Verfiably correct Isolated Easy to understand Focus on Dev not Ops Cross Platform Major Hypervisor support Mature, stable, proven since 2010

Developers

1) Check out any project

2) ‘vagrant up’

3) Done

Developer

Continue to work in your own browsers, editors, and other tools.

The existence of Vagrant is

transparent and unimportant.

Vagrant is just the workhorse that creates

consistent and stable development environments.

Systems Operators

1) “vagrant up”

2) Complete sandbox to test ops scripts

Automation developed used for both production and development.

With every vagrant up, developers get a fully provisioned environment using the same scripts as production.

Clean up

Vagrant destroy

Vagrant suspend

Vagrant halt.

Tao of Vagrant

Vagrant up will get you up and running at any moment.

Knowledge transfers to every project that uses Vagrant.

Vagrant is a general purpose Tool. Use it in a way that works best

for you.

May need to SSH into the machine to run some code.

No problem: vagrant ssh

Why Vagrant

Powerful work-flow

Clean abstractions

Uncompromising Flexibility

Get Up and Running Quickly

1. // Install Git and vagrant

2. // Install vagrant plugins

3. #vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater

4. // edits localhosts file and clean it when done

5. #vagrant plugin install vagrant-triggers

6. #git clone https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV dev

7. #git clone https://github.com/bradp/vv.git

8. //Variable VVV - the best VVV site wizard

9. #git clone https://github.com/leogopal/VVV-Dashboard

10. #mv VVV-Dashboard/dashboard* www/default/

11. #cd dev

12. #vagrant up

Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants (VVV)

Variable VVV

VagrantPress

●Alternative to VVV for Testing plugins and themes before deploying them on a live site

●Creating a dev site for theme development● Running WordPress Betas to try new features

https://github.com/chad-thompson/vagrantpress

WordPress Vagrant Resources

Ideas On Purpose Mercury Vagrant VIP Quickstart Salty WordPress Evolution WordPress VagrantPress Vagrant + Chef + WordPress Hashimoto Atlas Directory of Vagrant Boxes

Ideas On Purpose

https://github.com/ideasonpurpose/basic-wordpress-vagrant

Mercury Vagrant (HGV)

https://github.com/wpengine/hgv

VIP Quickstart

https://github.com/Automattic/vip-quickstart/

Vagrant + Chef + WordPress

vccw.cc

Salty WordPress

Uses three great technologies: Salt, Vagrant, and WordPress.

https://github.com/humanmade/Salty-WordPress

Evolution WordPress

Generate an entirely versioned, multi-environment Wordpress site in under a minute!

https://github.com/evolution/wordpress

Atlas Directory of Boxes

https://atlas.hashicorp.com/boxes/search

Thankyou

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