V2 Vagrant Box Setup

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Introduction

To allow to minimize the effort needed to create a new virtual machine for a V2 system we prepare from a standard Ubuntu Vagrant Box a customized box containing all necessary software.

Currently the following software packages are added: * rbenv * ruby (1.9.3-p484 and 2.2.2)

How to create a customized Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 bit Vagrant box for V2

Create a new virtual machine based on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) base box

See XenialBaseBoxSetup how to create the base Xenial vagrant box, if not created yet.

This example is using the virtual machine name xenial-rails and assumed that the port 20500 is free on the host system and can be used for SSH. The private network setting can also vary depending of the host machine.

vagrant@zg-2:~/vms$ mkdir xenial-rails
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms$ cd xenial-rails 
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-rails$ vi Vagrantfile

# This VM is for creating the Vagrant box xenial-rails from xenial-base, not for production.
# DON'T LEAVE THIS VM RUNNING
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "xenial-base"
  config.vm.hostname = "xenial-rails.softxs.ch"
  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |v|
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--name",   "xenial-rails"]
    v.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "8192"]
  end
  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "172.16.1.100", netmask: "255.240.0.0"
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 22, host: 20500
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "nfs", nfs_udp: true, nfs_version: 4
end

Start the new VM set root password, create v2 user and update the packages database

vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-rails$ vagrant up
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-rails$ vagrant ssh
vagrant@xenial-rails:~$ sudo su -
# Make user v2
root@xenial-rails:~# adduser v2 # passwd tcom1959
root@xenial-rails:~# apt-get update

Installing rbenv, ruby and bundler

apt-get install git
cd /usr/local
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git rbenv
cd rbenv
mkdir plugins
cd plugins
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git
cd /usr/local
chgrp -R v2 rbenv     
chmod -R g+rwxXs rbenv
cat > /etc/profile.d/Z50-rbenv.sh
export RBENV_ROOT=/usr/local/rbenv
export PATH="$RBENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
^D
logout/login
apt-get install -y libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev
rbenv install 1.9.3-p484
rbenv install 2.2.2
apt-get install bundler
cd /tmp
cat > .ruby-version
1.9.3-p484
^D
gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc bundle
cat > .ruby-version
2.2.2
^D
gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc bundle
rm .ruby-version

Installig Apache 2 and Phusion Passenger 5

root@xenial-rails:~# apt-get install apache2 apache2-bin apache2-dev
root@xenial-rails:~# touch /etc/apache2/httpd.conf         # create an empty file if doesn't exists

# Phusion Passanger 5
# see: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/library/install/apache/install/oss/trusty/
root@xenial-rails:~# apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 561F9B9CAC40B2F7
root@xenial-rails:~# apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates
root@xenial-rails:~# echo deb https://oss-binaries.phusionpassenger.com/apt/passenger trusty main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/passenger.list
root@xenial-rails:~# apt-get update
root@xenial-rails:~# apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-passenger

Repackaging the VM into a new Vagrant box

vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-rails$ vagrant halt
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-rails$ vagrant package --output ~/boxes/xenial_rails.box
vagrant@zg-2:~/vms/xenial-rails$ vagrant box add xenial_rails ~/boxes/xenial_rails.box