wkirwin / vagrant-setup

provision a basic vagrant Ubuntu 14.04 VM; install scripts for additional packages included.

Basic Vagrant Setup

Some basic vagrant files for provisioning an Ubuntu 14.04 VirtualBox with some basic niceties (git, tmux, htop, zsh). The vagrant box syncs local folders

• d:\local -> /home/vagrant/local
• d:\projects -> /home/vagrant/projects, and
• d:\stash -> /home/vagrant/stash.

Various additional packages/resources can be installed by copying the relevant script from dev/install-scripts to dev/install. Right now, only the following are included (maybe more to come in the future):

• Anaconda Python 2.7, 3.4 or 3.latest (plus Accelerate/Iopro if you have a license)
• set up a IPython notebook server (Python 2.7 or 3.4) (run with ipython notebook --profile nbserver; located on port 8888)
• Java JDK 8 (Oracle)
• Scala 2.11.7 + SBT 0.13.9
• Docker (latest, plus start the Docker daemon)

Usage:

1. (Optional) Download install resources and put them in the resources directory (e.g., Anaconda2-2.4.1-Linux-x86_64.sh). Put any other required resources (contents of ~/.ssh, a hosts file, Continuum licences, etc...).

2. Copy desired install scripts from ./install-scripts to ./install.

3. Edit Vagrantfile to sync your desired local directories to the corresponding directory in the VM.

4. Run vagrant up.

To install additional packages into an existing vagrant box, copy the desired scripts to the dev/install directory and run vagrant up --provision.

Key vagrant commands

vagrant up : loads the VM

vagrant ssh : access the VM

vagrant reload --provision : reload the VM with updated settings

vagrant status : Shows the staus of the VM

vagrant suspend : to use it at the same point later

vagrant halt : stops it (power down)

vagrant destroy : deletes it

vagrant box update : updates the base box (ubuntu/trusty64)