PHP development VM configuration with ansible for students

Features

• Lightweight
  • uses Xfce
  • ~4 GiB initial virtual disk size with VirtualBox
  • RAM >= 2 GiB
• Includes
  • Various tools
    • PHP and Composer
    • Sqlite3
    • VSCode and Git
  • Install scripts
    • Node.js and npm
    • MariaDB

Instructions

• Create the virtual machine:
  • Install Debian on a Virtualbox VM
    • Create users (or update hosts)
      • Set root password to changeme
      • Create user with password changeme
    • Software selection - select only SSH server
  • Prepare the VM for ansible
    • Make sure you can ssh into the VM
      • Update VM network settings Machine > Settings > Network > Attached to > Bridged Adapter
      • Get the ip address with ip a and update hosts
      • Copy key by SSH-ing into the VM ssh user@192.168.x.y
    • Install packages and add sudo privileges to user
      • Log in as root with su - and install packages apt install sudo python3
      • Add user to sudoers adduser user sudo
  • Setup the VM ansible-playbook playbooks/setup.yml
• Trim virtual disk:
  • Remove all unnecessary files ansible-playbook playbooks/cleanup.yml
  • On VM:
    • sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/bigemptyfile bs=4096k status=progress
    • sudo rm -f /bigemptyfile
  • On host:
    • vboxmanage modifymedium /mnt/storage/VBOX/phpdev/phpdev.vdi --compact
      • Edit this path to match your .vdi file

Other information

Updates

It is recommended to create a new install every time you run a new version of these playbooks.

To see changes, see Releases in Github.

License

This repository is licensed under The Unlicense. See LICENSE for more information.