halkyon / packer-web

Using packer.io, build and provision a Vagrant box capable of running a LAMP stack application

Packer PHP vagrant box builder

Introduction

Using packer.io, build and provision a Vagrant box capable of running a LAMP stack application. This also puts a copy of SilverStripe into the /var/www webroot on each box with some fake pages for testing.

Also bundled is a build-minimal.json file for building boxes with only VirtualBox Guest Additions on them. Useful if you just want to start from scratch.

Boxes

virtualbox-web-jessie-php56

• Debian 8 "jessie"
• MariaDB 10
• Apache 2.4
• PHP 5.6 w/ extensions: apcu, curl, gd, imagick, ldap, mcrypt, mysqlnd, sqlite, tidy

virtualbox-web-jessie-hhvm

• Debian 8 "jessie"
• MariaDB 10
• nginx 1.6
• HHVM

Usage

Building

Build a specific box:

packer build -only="virtualbox-web-jessie-php56" build.json

Build multiple boxes at once:

packer build -only="virtualbox-web-jessie-php56,virtualbox-web-jessie-hhvm" build.json

Build everything by leaving out the only argument:

packer build build.json

Build minimal boxes with only VirtualBox Guest Additions installed on them:

packer build build-minimal.json

Benchmarking

A test.sh script is provided which, when run, will go through each vagrant.box output artifact, start the box and run some siege benchmarks on each box. Each box is allocated 2 virtual CPU cores and 2GB of RAM.

This is useful for testing raw application performance on different versions of PHP.

The results (in CSV format) will be placed into a test-results/ directory.