Vagrant Development environment with eclipse

This repository can be used as a submodule in any project, that requires a reproducable development environment. It uses vagrant to manage the lifecycle of a virtual machine. While this project gives you a few possibilitites to change the 'hardware setup' of the virtual machine, it will work right out of the box. The machine is provisioned (installation and setup of software, libraries and your project) using ansible. Many default setups are available through predefined playbooks and variables in files and inventories. But you can have your own or combine it with the available setups for your own project.

Prerequisites

VirtualBox vagrant

Optional

To speed up repeated installation for the same and even different projects: vagrant-cachier vagrant-vbguest

vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

Mount points

There are two default mount-points in the virtual machine.

• . -> /vagrant
• .. -> /project

They are critical for this setup and will not be changed in the future.

sample command lines to setup a virtual machine

flags to change the virtual machine

Create a virtual machine with name "ECLIPSE", 2 cpus, 2GB of memroy and mount using nfs (usually requires root/sudo rights on the host, since nfs exports need to be written):

vagrant --vmname=ECLIPSE --cpus=2 --memory=2048 --nfs up

eclipse for C++ development

provision:

vagrant --ansible-playbook=ansible/site.yml --extra-vars-file=ansible/extra-vars/eclipse_cpp.yml up

provision again after machine was created

vagrant --ansible-playbook=ansible/site.yml --extra-vars-file=ansible/extra-vars/eclipse_cpp.yml up --provision

eclipse for R development

provision:

vagrant --ansible-playbook=ansible/site.yml --extra-vars-file=ansible/extra-vars/eclipse_r.yml up