On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@pingoured.fr> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:37:11AM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> As a designer, when I jump into doing a UI review, or hacking on the
> templates / CSS of a new project, one of the most painful steps for me is
> getting my dev environment set up.
>
> Most of our webapps do have very good documentation on getting a dev
> environment set up, but invariably this takes a good chunk of time and
> fiddling for me (being someone that is not super-familiar with setting up
> and running the back-ends of webapps). This is especially relevant if what
> i am trying to fix is just a simple template change, and TBH manually
> tweaking postgres config files is not really my idea of a good time. :)
>
> Long story short, i am asking for comments and thoughts on how to make
> setting up a dev environment simpler and easier (and perhaps even
> standardized between all our apps).
>
> I recently started playing with Vagrant, and made this vagrant setup[1]
> for bootstrapping a bodhi dev envirionment using Vagrant on top of
> vagrant-libvirt, and it works pretty well for me -- i can just use one
> command to spin up a new clean instance of a bodhi dev environment, with
> the DB configured and populated and ready to go. Note that i chose libvirt
> with Vagrant here, primarily because i am not well versed in Docker, but
> Docker on Vagrant is possible too.
>
> [1] - https://gist.github.com/ryanlerch/577eb8cd9d8ff66023cb2f98dc78bfe5

I am all for vagrant or docker for my apps, I do think it would make things way
easier for new contributors to get started.

I know I've been meaning to get faitout on docker so that one could run a local
instance of faitout, but still haven't done it.

On the docker vs vagrant, I have no idea, I must confess I lack knowledge on
both (played w/ docker once over a year ago, never with vagrant).

We can use Docker with vagrant too. But i don't know too much about Docker,

so in my use of Vagrant, i pretty much have stuck with using libvirt with Vagrant

to do what I need to do.

I have a few Vagrant setups working now too, and added a pagure repo with some

instructions as well:

https://pagure.io/fedora-apps-vagrantfiles/tree/master

So far, I have ones for fedora-hubs, bodhi and a quick one for getting a modern_paste

test instance up and running. I also should note that I am not a sysadmin, so i might

be doing some of the steps in the provisioning a bit weird, so feel free to test these out

and submit a PR or three ;)

cheers,

ryanlerch

Pierre

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