Devbox

Description

My dev box running on Virtual Box, Docker or bare metal..

Headless setup:

• Users from GitHub (see group_vars/local to change users)
• Ansible (also used for the provisioning)
• Vim
• SSH
• Docker and Docker Compose
• OpenJDK 8
• NodeJS
• Go
• Python

GUI setup:

• Headless setup, plus...
• XFCE 4
• Chromium
• Virtual Box Additions

Note: GUI setup is not available with the Docker image

Virtual Machine

Prerequisite

1. Virtual Box
2. Vagrant
3. Install vagrant proxy conf plugin (if you are behind a corporate proxy)

vagrant plugin install vagrant-proxyconf
vagrant plugin install vagrant-persistent-storage

Edit your global Vagrantfile (located in the .vagrant.d directory of your home directory):

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-proxyconf")
    config.proxy.http     = "http://proxy-internet.localnet:3128/"
    config.proxy.https    = "http://proxy-internet.localnet:3128/"
    config.proxy.no_proxy = "localhost,.priv.corp.com"
  end
end

Usage

Start the VM with Vagrant:

vagrant up

Docker

Usage

Start the container with Docker:

./devbox

# OR

docker run --name="devbox" -h "devbox" \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -it \
  ncarlier/devbox

Remaining work

Vagrant persitent disk

If you want to use a persistent disk for your home directory there is some manual work to do:

# SSH into the VM
vagrant ssh
# Swith to root user
sudo -s
# Unmount the persistent disk
umount /mnt/home/
# Build the partition
cfdisk /dev/sdb
# Make the file system
mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdb1
# Remount the partition
mount -a
# Copy all current home data to the new location
cp -rp /home/* /mnt/home/
# Edit the fstab
vi /etc/fstab
# Update the last line as follow:
# /dev/sdb1 /home btrfs defaults 0 0

# Reboot

Dotfiles

If you are using my dotfiles you have to start the install script:

# If you are behind a corporate proxy
. /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh
cd .dotfiles
./install

Proxy

If your are behind a corporate proxy and you are using ZSH you may have to do this:

echo "source /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh" > .localrc

If you want to use docker without having struggle with the proxy, you just have to do this:

redsocks start

SSL

If you have troubles with ssl handshake you may have to do this:

sudo update-ca-certificates -f

Enjoy.