gantsign / development-environment

A development environment for Java, Python and Node.js built using Vagrant

GantSign EnV

A development environment for Java, Python and Node.js built using Vagrant.

About

Getting your development environment setup correctly can be a time consuming and error prone process; getting everyone on a team to setup their environment correctly is even more challenging.

The goal of this project is to make setting up a development environment reliable and reproducible. This project provides a generic development environment that you can fork to add your project specific configuration.

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Requirements

• Vagrant
• VirtualBox

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Feature Highlights

• Dynamically allocated swap space
• Compressed swap
• File backup & restore between rebuilds
• Terminator
• Oh My Zsh
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Minikube
• Helm
• Visual Studio Code
• Git-GUI and Gitk
• Postman
• Open JDK
• Maven
• IntelliJ IDEA IDE
• SDKMAN!
• Node.js
• Pyenv
• Pipenv

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Installation

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License

MIT

Author Information

John Freeman

GantSign Ltd. Company No. 06109112 (registered in England)

development-environment's Issues

Add configuration for timezone

The timezone should be configurable using Nugrant configuration. This will be particularly useful to users in the US.

Improve and document proxy support

While you can currently get the development environment to work behind a proxy using the vagrant-proxyconf plugin, this isn't covered in the documentation for the development environment; also, you still need to manually configure the proxy settings for Gnome so the Google Chrome browser will also be able to use the proxy.

Document the process for using the development behind a proxy, auto install the vagrant-proxyconf plugin, and add support for configuring the Gnome proxy as part of the provisioning.

Make Ubuntu Unity the default desktop

While the Xfce4+DockbarX desktop may be more familiar to some, particularly those with little Linux experience, the Ubuntu Unity is the default desktop for Ubuntu.

As the default desktop Unity is a bit more robust, particularly when it comes to integration with third part apps.

Support for Xfce4 should be maintained but Unity should be the default for the development environment.

Implement mandatory license check

To install Oracle Java you must have accepted the "Oracle Binary Code License Agreement
for the Java SE Platform Products and JavaFX".

Add configuration for keyboard and locale

The keyboard and locale should be configurable using Nugrant configuration. This will be particularly useful to users in the US.

Provisioning fails if IntelliJ not installed

The pin-to-launcher role fails because either ansible_local or ansible_local.intellij is undefined.

This happens when you skip either of the tags java or intellij.

Fix version of Ansible dependencies

Needed to make the VM build more reproducible.

All versions should be fixed apart from the following that should always use the latest:

• gantsign.gitkraken
• gantsign.intellij
• gantsign.visual-studio-code

undefined method `mac?

When I install vagrant plugins,I got errors:
`There was an error loading a Vagrantfile. The file being loaded
and the error message are shown below. This is usually caused by
an invalid or undefined variable.

Path: /Users/tomyli/github/tools/development-environment/Vagrantfile
Line number: 46
Message: undefined method mac?'

What should i do?

Add tags to Ansible playbook

Ansible tags are a great way of customising the VM by allowing you to turn off the features you don't wan't / need.

Add Ansible tags for "java,maven,nodejs,gui".

Upgrade bento/ubuntu-18.04 to 20.04

Hi Guys,

First of all amazing project! I use it myself. I was wondering if you are planning to switch to 20.04? It has been around for a while now so I guess it would be safe to upgrade?

Thanks

Vagrant user has no user groups

The vagrant user's user groups are all unintentionally removed as part of the build.

Add Kubernetes support

Install kubelet, kubectl and kubeadm for developing/deploying apps using Kubernetes.

Add Postman HTTP tool

Postman recently released an app for Linux; since it's such a useful tool for REST API testing it should be installed by default.

Add Molecule for testing Ansible roles

Given this development environment uses so many Ansible roles it'd be nice if it gave a little back by making Ansible roles a little easier to develop.

Upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 15.10 support ended on July 28 2016.

Changing to 14.04 LTS would be problematic because it's using old versions of several packages including Python; the Python version is a particular problem as it's pre-SNI support, which breaks many of the Ansible roles. The hardware support for 14.04 LTS is also ending soon which could cause issues with VirtualBox support.

The 16.04 is the latest LTS release, released on July 21, 2016, it will be supported until late 2018. While there have been a number of hurdles for supporting 16.04 it's a good long term solution.

Unison failure is preventing shutdown of VM

When the Unison service is failing you can't use vagrant stop/reload to shutdown the VM.

Workaround: "vagrant ssh -- sudo shutdown -h now".

Ansible fails when you skip tags java or maven

TASK [franklinkim.environment : Remove previous values] ************************
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Skipping task due to undefined Error, in the future this
will be a fatal error.: {u'IDEA_JDK': u'{{
ansible_local.java.general.java_home }}', u'M2_HOME': u'{{
ansible_local.maven.general.maven_home }}', u'JAVA_HOME': u'{{
ansible_local.java.general.java_home }}', u'LS_COLORS': u'di=1;36;40:ln=35;40:s
o=32;40:pi=33;40:ex=31;40:bd=34;46:cd=34;43:su=0;41:sg=0;46:tw=0;42:ow=0;43:',
u'CDPATH': u'.:/home/vagrant/workspace'}: 'ansible_local' is undefined.
This
feature will be removed in a future release. Deprecation warnings can be
disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "the field 'args' has an invalid value, which appears to include a variable that is undefined. The error was: 'item' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/vagrant/provisioning/roles/franklinkim.environment/tasks/config.yml': line 10, column 3, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n- name: Remove previous values\n ^ here\n"}

Switch from Canonical built box to Bento built box

Bento boxes (https://atlas.hashicorp.com/bento) are officially-recommended by Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/boxes.html) whereas the Canonical ones are not.

The Bento boxes provide the same version of Ubuntu but configured better for Vagrant.

Add Terminator terminal emulator

Terminator allows you to split the screen into multiple terminal windows.

Add support for the Go programming language

• Install the Go language SDK
• Set GOROOT and GOPATH environment variables
• Add $GOROOT\bin and $GOPATH\bin to PATH environment variable
• Install Go lang plugins for IDEs

chmod: cannot access '/etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/http-proxy.conf': No such file or directory

The machine is booting and everything seems to work just fine, there is just this error message after vagrant up:

...
==> default: Machine booted and ready!
==> default: Configuring proxy for Apt...
==> default: Configuring proxy for Docker...
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

chmod 0644 /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/http-proxy.conf

Stdout from the command:



Stderr from the command:

chmod: cannot access '/etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/http-proxy.conf': No such file or directory

Vagrant 2.2.2, Virtualbox 5.2.4

I have proxy.enabled set to false (as by default)

I see /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/proxy.conf referenced in the angstwad.docker_ubuntu role, not http-proxy.conf. Can't find anything related in the main config though, can use some help there

Enable VirtualBox setting to be configured with Nugrant

The Vagrant Nugrant plugin (https://github.com/maoueh/nugrant) is a great way of allowing configuration for your VM to be overridden at multiple levels.

All the current VirtualBox settings in the Vagrantfile should be configurable using Nugrant.

Specify locale for language, encoding and formatting

The keyboard is set to GB but everything else is still on US.

Move file mirror to persistent storage

Move the home directory file mirror from vagrant shared folder to persistent storage (i.e. a persistent disk mounted using the vagrant-persistent-storage plugin).

The vagrant shared folders are flaky at best:

• they lack support for file permissions
• they lack support for users and groups
• they are sometimes unmounted when the host machine goes to sleep
• vagrant mounts them during startup so they don't play well with services
• the mod-dates don't always match the Linux values causing issues with synchronisation
• they lack inotify support

Switching to persistent storage will provide a more reliable experience.