Nuxeo Candidate Discussion Exercise

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** Introduction

This simple exercise has as an objective to make the candidate familiar with Nuxeo Software, and will serve
as base of discussion for the interviews. The candidate is free to chose the methodology that he feels more confortable.
The candidate can express freely his own ideas and the best of his own devops craft skills.

** Description

The goal of this exercise is to install Nuxeo software and create a way to share it with other users like developers.

** Exercise (STAR technique - Situation/Task/Actions/Results)

SITUATION: We would like to distribute/publish to the developers a runnning nuxeo for of-the-shelf (OTS) usage
            on Vagrant OR Docker

TASK: Create a Vagrant Box OR a Docker ready to be used by the developers and pre-sales with minimum effort. 

      NOTE: Eventually this could lead evolve to deployment on the cloud within a Continuos Deliver/Deployment 
             pipeline with a setup including additional components like Database, Redis and/or ElasticSearch
             (but this is not part of this exercise).

ACTIONS: Up to the Candidate

RESULTS: To be discussed on the interview (the result must be shared on GITHUB repository)

** DURATION

User should not spend more than a couple hours.

** HINTS

In order to have Nuxeo to work you need to run the following commands on Ubuntu as an example

sudo useradd -d /opt/nuxeo -p nuxeo -s /bin/bash nuxeo
sudo apt-get install -y acpid openjdk-8-jdk libreoffice imagemagick poppler-utils ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora ufraw libwpd-tools perl locales pwgen dialog supervisor unzip vim htop
curl -sSL http://cdn.nuxeo.com/nuxeo-8.3/nuxeo-server-8.3-tomcat.zip -o /tmp/nuxeo-distribution-tomcat.zip
sudo unzip -q -d /opt /tmp/nuxeo-distribution-tomcat.zip
sudo mv /opt/nuxeo-server-8.3-tomcat /opt/nuxeo
sudo chown -R nuxeo /opt/nuxeo
sudo chmod +x /opt/nuxeo/bin/*ctl /opt/nuxeo/bin/*.sh
/opt/nuxeo/bin/nuxeoctl console