Vagrant Box ready for node development

This is a vagrant box based off of the lucid64 box.

It includes:

• nvm:
  • node.js v0.4.12 and v0.6.0 (default) installed
• npm
• redis 2.4.2
• mongodb 2.0.1
• git 1.7.0.4

How to use

1. Install Vagrant

• http://vagrantup.com/docs/getting-started/index.html

2. Create the directory where you want the vm to live and cd to it.
3. Git clone, or download, this Vagrantfile and put it in the directory.
4. $ vagrant up

• This will take a while, as it needs to download the box (>700 MB). When this command finishes the machine is ready to use.

6. $ vagrant ssh will give you shell access to the machine.

• In windows you'll need to follow the instruction to set up a PuTTY key.

7. Once you are shelled into the machine, you need to setup an ssh keypair.

• $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

8. Identify yourself to git

• `$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
• `$ git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

9. Now reload the bash profile so keychain will pick up your keypair.

• $ source ~/.bashrc

10. Now you probably want to add your pub key to your github account.

• You can find the key in ~/.ssh/
• Test your key: $ ssh -T [email protected]

11. Enjoy!

Shared folder

By default Vagrant sets up a 'root' shared folder for you. On the host machine it will be wherever you ran vagrant up in step 4 above.

I have set up an symlink (for convenience) at ~/shared that points to the location of the shared folder on the guest VM.

Forwarded ports

The Vagrantfile I packed with this box sets up some common forwarded ports used by node apps. Ports 3000-3009 and 8080 are forwarded from the guest machine to the host. You can forward more ports. Read the Vagrant documentation to find out how.

Vagrant commands

From the Vagrant docs:

$ vagrant
Usage: vagrant SUBCOMMAND
        --help                       Show help for the current subcommand.
        --version                    Output running Vagrant version.

Supported subcommands:
        box                 Box commands
        destroy             Destroys the vagrant environment
        halt                Halts the currently running vagrant environment
        init                Initializes current folder for Vagrant usage
        package             Packages a vagrant environment for distribution
        provision           Run the provisioner
        reload              Reload the vagrant environment
        resume              Resumes a suspend vagrant environment
        ssh                 SSH into the currently running environment
        ssh-config          outputs .ssh/config valid syntax for connecting to this environment via ssh
        status              Shows the status of the Vagrant environment.
        suspend             Suspends the currently running vagrant environment
        up                  Creates the vagrant environment

For help on a specific subcommand, run `vagrant SUBCOMMAND --help`