What is it:

It is an 'out of the box' vm configured for Geo Django, using Chef and Vagrant

It installs and sets up postgresql with postgis
It installs nginx
It installs some utils (vim, screen and git)
It installs some useful python utils (pip, virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper)
It fixes VirtualBox issue where shared folders to not work due to addon/guesttools not being installed

What it builds/prepares:

apt - updates
apt-upgrade upgrades vm packages (disabled by default)
build-essential
database - postgres + postgis
geos - installs
proj4 - installs
git - installs
nginx - installs
python-pip - installs
python-virtualenv - installs
virtualenvwrapper - installs and adds virtualenvwrapper to profile
screen - installs
vim - installs
virtualbox-guesttools - installs guest tools so that shared folders work

What it doesn't build/prepare:

django - you should install this in your virtualenv

What doesn't it build/prepare but will do soon:

user setup
fabric template for project creation / deployment

Notes

I am using the default lucid32 box with vagrant. This is the only box I have tested this on. Feel free to report back your experiences on other boxes and I will keep this updated.

How to use it

$ vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box
$ git clone https://github.com/eamonnfaherty/geodjango-env.git
$ cd geodjango-env
$ vim cookbooks/database/attributes/default.rb #edit db conf
$ vagrant up

Thanks to

The guys at caffeinehit for their version which I used as a base : https://github.com/caffeinehit/chef-geodjango Thank you guys!