bigchaindb-vagrant.md

Install BigchainDB on a VM with Vagrant

It's quite easy to provision and run a Vagrant VM:

• Install Vagrant in your host system following instructions here
• In your VM-to-be's home directory create the VagrantFile and the bash script to provision the machine (config.sh)

VagrantFile

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "config.sh"
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 7000, host: 7000
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 5000, host: 5000
end

config.sh

apt-get -qqy update
apt-get -qqy upgrade
apt-get -qqy install build-essential
apt-get -qqy install curl
apt-get -qqy install git
apt-get -qqy install libssl-dev
apt-get -qqy install python3-pip
apt-get -qqy install rethinkdb
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install bigchaindb

• run vagrant up to start provisioning (SO and libraries get installed)
• run vagrant ssh to log in the newly created machine
• test if working, from VM's command line:

$> python3
>>> from bigchaindb.core import Bigchain
>>> bigchain = Bigchain()
>>> print(bigchain.host)
localhost
>>> print(bigchain.me)
<print the public key of the instance>

helpful stuff! just had slight modifications to config.sh:

1. add libffi-dev and
2. prepend with

source /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt $DISTRIB_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list
wget -qO- https://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

ah and also run bigchaindb configure before jumping into the Python repl...

this is great, but im getting:

vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$ python3 -m pip install bigchaindb
Collecting bigchaindb
  Using cached BigchainDB-0.2.0.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:

    Installed /tmp/easy_install-maig5qst/pytest-runner-2.7.1/setuptools_scm-1.11.0-py3.4.egg
    your setuptools is too old (<12)
    setuptools_scm functionality is degraded
    zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...

    Installed /tmp/pip-build-ks1u413g/bigchaindb/pytest_runner-2.7.1-py3.4.egg
    error in BigchainDB setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-ks1u413g/bigchaindb/

any ideas?

using this now, with some success - i've set it up more as a dev environment so the local copy of bigchaindb is used:

Vagrantfile

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "config.sh"
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 7000, host: 7000
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 5000, host: 5000
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/home/vagrant/bigchaindb"
end

config.sh

source /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt $DISTRIB_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list
wget -qO- https://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
apt-get -qqy update
apt-get -qqy upgrade
apt-get -qqy install build-essential
apt-get -qqy install curl
apt-get -qqy install git
apt-get -qqy install libssl-dev
apt-get -qqy install libffi-dev
apt-get -qqy install python3-pip
apt-get -qqy install rethinkdb
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install -r /home/vagrant/bigchaindb/requirements.txt

Note: I had to copy the requirements into a file from setup.py, since this project doesn't have one (as of this writing)

I had warnings about old setuptool version so got around that..

pip install -U pip wheel setuptools

I tried to follow this on windows but it doesn't seem to work. Running vagrant up doesn't do anything.

Any ideas?

Working version with Bigchain v2.0:

Vagrantfile

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "config.sh"
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/bionic64"
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 9984, host: 9984
end

config.sh

# defaults
apt-get -qqy update
apt-get -qqy upgrade
apt-get -qqy install build-essential
apt-get -qqy install curl
apt-get -qqy install git
apt-get -qqy install libssl-dev
#python 3.6
apt-get -qqy install python3-pip
#pip
sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python3.6 get-pip.py
sudo rm get-pip.py
#docker
sudo apt-get -qqy install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
sudo apt-get -qqy update
sudo apt-get -qqy install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
sudo apt-get -qqy install docker-compose
#bigchain
apt-get -qqy install rethinkdb
#python3 -m pip install bigchaindb
rm -r -f bigchaindb
git clone -b rbac https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb.git
cd bigchaindb
# remove invalid argument for newer pip versions
find . -name "Dockerfile-dev" -type f | xargs sed -i -e 's/ --process-dependency-links//'
# run
sudo make run

Edit the git clone branch as you need. It is currently set to "rbac"