Vagrant config for basic Python development

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Initial setup of Vagrant Base

This step only ever needs to be done once. Once the precise64 box is installed on a system the remaining steps refer to that same box regardless of the project.

Download and install Xcode from the Apple App Store.

Download virtualbox from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads, install dmg.

Download vagrant from http://downloads.vagrantup.com/, install dmg.

Launch a terminal window, check that it installed:

(host) $ which vagrant

Add a vagrant box (we'll be using Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04 LTS) 64-bit):

(host) $ vagrant box add precise64 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box

Starting a New Project

Make a directory for the project and change to it, replacing <path_to> with the path to the project and <project_name> with the name of the project.

(host) $ mkdir <path_to>/<project_name> && cd $_

For example, to create a project called 'website' in your home directory:

(host) $ mkdir ~/website && cd $_

When you're all done, within this directory will be a directory named vagrant/ which will match up with /home/vagrant/ in the virtual envirionment. Virtualbox keeps the two directories in sync so changes to one will be made in the other.

Copy in the Vagrantfile.

(host) $ curl https://gist.github.com/jbergantine/8742830/raw/Vagrantfile > Vagrantfile

Copy in the provisioning files.

(host) $ curl https://gist.github.com/jbergantine/8742830/raw/bootstrap.sh > bootstrap.sh

Startup Vagrant and provision the Virtual Machine:

(host) $ vagrant up

SSH in to the virtualbox:

(host) $ vagrant ssh 

bootstrap.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

apt-get update

# install python
apt-get install python-dev python-pip -q -y

Vagrantfile

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

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  config.vm.box = "precise64"

  # The url from where the 'config.vm.box' box will be fetched if it
  # doesn't already exist on the user's system.
  config.vm.box_url = "http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"
    
  # Provision
  config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "bootstrap.sh"
  
  # To access a website running on port 8000, we can open a web browser  
  # on our workstation and go to http://localhost:8000
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8000, host: 8000

  # Shared folder
  config.vm.synced_folder "vagrant/", "/home/vagrant", create: true
end

Thank you, clean and simple and saved me a few minutes. Appreciate it.

The magic that is missing from all of the other tutorials I have found vagrant box add....

I forgot the default ssh password into the vagrant box is vagrant. haha

Thanks for the instructions. A couple of questions... why do you need to have Xcode installed? And does the VM support python virtual environments?

I'm curiouse. If i will using python ide like pycharm on the host machine, the code auto-completion, and the python libraries couldn't be recognized by the IDE ? (the python libraries , digango, flask are not installed on the host machine)

would you be willing to explain the below command a little further?:

apt-get install python-dev python-pip -q -y

what is the difference between python and python-dev and what to -q and -y flags do?

@grant-humpries

• python-dev contains everything needed to compile python extension modules
• --quiet and --assume-yes

Will this be accessible in the host browser out of the box at :8000 ?