jpadilla / juicebox

A virtual machine designed for programming workshops.

Juice Box

A virtual machine designed for programming workshops.

Based on boxcutter/ubuntu.

Reason

Technical workshops shouldn't be about installing a development environment in Linux, Windows, OS X, or whatever else. Unless that's what they are about, this takes way too much time from everyone and it's a pain.

Specs

This project includes two Packer templates:

• server.json - No desktop environment.
• desktop.json - Xubuntu desktop environment.

Both of them build a virtual machine based on Ubuntu Server 14.04 with the the following software installed:

• Git
• Python 3.4 with pyenv
• Node.js with nvm
• Ruby 2.1 with RVM
• MongoDB
• Redis
• PostgreSQL
• Docker

Desktop version has the following installed:

• Sublime Text 3
• Google Chrome
• Firefox

Distributing

I'll be building OVA files and Vagrant boxes for each version and hosting them.

Building and Uploading

Requirements:

• Packer
• S3cmd

Server

$ make server
$ AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='' AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='' make upload/server

Desktop

$ make desktop
$ AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='' AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='' make upload/desktop

juicebox's Issues

RVM Warning

RVM likes to whine about not being first in PATH. We also have NVM somewhere along. We can just disable this warning by adding rvm_silence_path_mismatch_check_flag=1 to ~/.rvmrc.

Warning! PATH is not properly set up, '/home/juicebox/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.5/bin' is not at first place,
         usually this is caused by shell initialization files - check them for 'PATH=...' entries,
         it might also help to re-add RVM to your dotfiles: 'rvm get stable --auto-dotfiles',
         to fix temporarily in this shell session run: 'rvm use ruby-2.1.5'.

Rename project to juicebox

Friendly first run

I think we should do a few things on the default desktop VM to make the first run experience better. Here are my suggestions.

• Add desktop icons for all GUI apps including Terminal.
• Add a README.html file on the desktop with some info about the VM, what's included, how to start, where to get help or report issues.
• Create ~/Code directory. The idea here is to have a directory all instructors can suggest to users for writing workshop files.
• Add a start menu. How can I find installed apps?
• Replace default background image with a JuiceBox design.

Hosting php files

Is there a directory in the filesystem that can serve PHP files? I am trying to use JuiceBox to run a PHP application that connects to a Postgres database. For example, if I create a index.php in this path

/home/juicebox/Code

and try to open the file in Chrome

file:///home/juicebox/Code/index.php

it does not serve, instead downloads the file.

Is there a way to have a virtual directory which can serve PHP files or maybe an Apache installation?

Ruby missing ?

Build, Test, and Upload v1.2.0

Latest v1.2.0 includes Ruby 2.1 with RVM.

@gcollazo whenever you can try building and checking it out. I'd love to know the resulting size on the OVA, shouldn't be that much of a difference. If everything looks good please upload.

x86 32bit image

Is it feasible to make a 32bit build of the Juicebox guest image? Looks like boxcutter has them.

Ran into a problem here where some devices don't have a CPU that supports the necessary instructionset to run 64-bit guest machines.

default root password

how do I find or change the default root password?

Website

The goal of this project is to create a "standard" VM that all community members can use to facilitate programming training or tutorials. The second (even more important) goal is to make the process of preparing a student system as painless as possible.

To achieve this second goal we need docs, really good docs. Las night I made a simple website to exemplify what I think is the right approach. I would like this to become a starting point to start the collaboration process with other members of the community.

Please submit your comments and help us improve this.

The very cool logo I'm using was designed by @jomajoma. The name Juice Box was proposed by @jpadilla and I believe he will be renaming this project soon.

Otro estilo de heading:

Change hacker for server

Build and Upload v1.3.0

Make sure iso_checksum values are correct

Redux

Note: Current work is in the packer branch.

We need better and easier. This project should allow building and setting up distributables. It's possible to package a currently running VirtualBox environment into a re-usable box and export an OVA which can be imported directly into VirtualBox without the use of vagrant or any other tool. Ideally this OVA will be hosted for others to download, or provided via offline storage in workshops and classes.

• Use boxcutter/ubuntu1404 box for "hacker" version
• Use boxcutter/ubuntu1404-desktop for "gui" version
• Install Sublime Text 3 for "gui" version
• Install Chrome for "gui" version
• Makefile: Build
• Makefile: Upload artifact OVA files to S3/Cloudfront
• Makefile: Upload box files to Atlas or S3/Cloudfront

README

We need a better README. It should include some info about the VM, what's included, how to start, where to get help or report issues. It should work as the README for the repo and the README in the VM's desktop.

New versions uploaded

Just uploaded the latest versions to S3.

https://io-blimp-juicebox.s3.amazonaws.com/juicebox-desktop-1.1.0.box
https://io-blimp-juicebox.s3.amazonaws.com/juicebox-desktop-1.1.0.ova
https://io-blimp-juicebox.s3.amazonaws.com/juicebox-desktop-1.1.0.ova.zip

Try adding minimize script to desktop provisioner

Change node.js logo to io.js

Since io.js is included instead of node.js the logo in gh-pages should match.

Install io.js instead of node.js

Update to Ubuntu Server 16.04

Una sola versión

Me gustaría saber que piensas de la posibilidad de tener un solo box en vez de dos. Pienso que esto podría ayudar a algunos users a no confundirse y bajar el box incorrecto. 😕

Edit: si tenemos solo una versión tendría q ser la desktop.

Fail to change software repository settings

Is root have a default password, need input here for authenticate.
Thanks

Docker

Simple enough to add if we want. Also, we could possibly have setups that people could share in workshops that are easily installable with one line.

#!/bin/bash -eux

echo "==> Installing Docker"
wget -qO- https://get.docker.com/ | sh
sudo usermod -aG docker juicebox

Setup virtualenvwrapper

Python 3

Lots of inquiries to why Python 2 over Python 3. Might just install both next to each other and provide some aliases like mkvirtualenv2.7 and mkvirtualenv3.3.

If anyone has a better setup for development with both versions, ideas are welcome.

Minimal ubunt-desktop installation

http://askubuntu.com/a/42977