sinclair/vagrant_elixir

Vagrant setup for a VM for Elixir development

Elixir provisioning for Vagrant

What is it for?

Developers can use a Virtual Machine (VM) for development in order to quickly get up and running with a system that has Elixir installed. Everyone will have the same setup regardless of the host machine.

The VM will have:

• Linux (Ubuntu)
• Erlang
• Elixir
• PostgreSQL
• various dependencies for the Phoenix framework

The provisioning script can easiliy be modified for other versions of the software.

If a Phoenix project is detected during the first vagrant up, the database will also be set up and seeded.

Prerequisites

• Install Vagrant ( https://www.vagrantup.com/ )
• Install VirtualBox ( https://www.virtualbox.org/ ) or alternatively VMWare.

How to use it

1. Add the two files Vagrantfile and vagrant_provision.sh to any directory. With an Elixir project in it or not.
2. Run vagrant up This will take a while the first time as it will install Erlang, Elixir, PostgreSQL and more.
3. SSH into the vagrant box with vagrant ssh.

The /vagrant directory will be linked to the project directory on the host machine.

Version control

Vagrantfile and vagrant_provision.sh should be added to version control. On the other hand it is recommended to ignore the .vagrant directory. If you are using git you could add this line to .gitignore: .vagrant/*