Fedora Devbox

This repository contains a fedora based development environment.

The source is licenced under GPL3.

Prerequisities

Vagrant

Download and install vagrant from https://www.vagrantup.com.

SSH Keys (optional)

If you want to use git it is recommended that you copy or create a set of RSA keys.

• You can either copy your usual ssh keys under /keys, or generate a set of new keys.

SSH Agent Forwarding

In /etc/ssh/ssh_config enable SSH Agent Forwarding

Host *
   ForwardAgent yes

NFS Client on the host

OSX Host

OSX support NFS out of the box.

1. Press CMD+k in Finder.
2. Provide your host's private IP address, for example nfs://<192.168.33.33>

Linux

• Fedore documentation is here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/s1-nfs-client-config.html

• Fedora guide is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Administration_Guide_Draft/NFS#NFS_Clients

• Ubuntu guide is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/network-file-system.html.en

Windows

Windows supports NFS. It needs to be enabled. Follow the guide here:

Windows mount command

Setup

1. Clone this repository

1. Personalizing the VM configuration (mandatory)

# -----------------------------------------------------------
# dev user config
# -----------------------------------------------------------

export DEVUSER_NAME="dev"
export DEVUSER_EMAIL="my.email@gmail.com"
export DEVUSER_FULLNAME="My Full Name"
export DEVUSER_PASSWORD="vagrant"
export DEVUSER_GID=20       # MAKE SURE THIS MATCHES WITH YOUR HOST USERS GID
export DEVUSER_UID=501      # MAKE SURE THIS MATCHES WITH YOUR HOST USERS UID

NOTE: Make sure `DEVUSER_GID` and `DEVUSER_UID` is matching with your group and user id on the host system. This required when you edit files via NFS, it will be created with the VM's dev user's credentials.
You can check your GID and UID using the `id` command on *nix and osx.

NOTE 2: When you use the devbox with a linux host, there is a chance that your `UID` is `1000` (default for many linux systems). That will collide with the VM's existing `vagrant` user. In this case, please set `DEVUSER_NAME` user name to `vagrant`. This will prevent a new user to be created.

1. Personalizing the VM configuration (optional)

Modules

Enable/disable modules by uncommenting/commenting lines in PROVISIONER_ENABLED_MODULES

Module name	Description
general	A couple basic packages, like telnet, wget, and timezone settings
repo_epel	Install and enable EPEL repository
repo_rpmfusion	Install and enable rpm fusion repository
nfs	Create an Network Filesystem share to allow remote filesystem access
devtools	Basic devtools, like git, gcc, make
devuser	Create and configure DEVUSER
python	Install python2 and python3 and all packages defined in PYTHON_PACKAGES.
nodejs	Install nvm, nodejs and npm.
docker	Install docker
aws	Install Amazon Web Services command line tool and configure access keys
gae	Install Google App Engine environment and Google Cloud command line tool gcloud, kubernetes command line tool kubectl
devproject	Clone and run custom command for a git repository.

Custom packages

Install additional RPM packages by adding them to the SYSTEM_PACKAGES array.

Timezone

Set the SYSTEM_TIMEZONE to the desired timezone. Defaults to UTC.

1. Start and provision the VM

From shell issue vagrant up to bring up the VM.

Errors during startup

It might complain about IP addresses and network interfaces. Please check the following lines in the Vagrantfile:

config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.33"
config.vm.network "public_network", bridge: 'en4: Thunderbolt Ethernet'

Provisioning process

The vagrant up command will:

1. Create a brand new fedora based on the minimalistic fedora 28 cloud base image. It will download about 300MB in the first run.

2. Provision the virtual machine, installing and configuring all required packages. It will download another 300MB. It will do this every time you re-create the VM.

Re-run the provisioner

In case something fails, you can always do:

vagrant reload --provision to re-run the whole vm setup.

You can also run parts of the process:

Usage

SSH Access

1. Use vagrant's default vagrant ssh. This will connect using the vagrant user.

2. Use the make ssh command to use the dev user to connect.

3. Use make portforwards to connect and create portforwards for default common ports used for development

   • 80
   • 8000
   • 8081
   • 4200

Mounting the root filesystem

Use your platforms way of connecting to the NFS share provided by the VM. Please check the NFS section of the prerequisities.