vagrant-ansible-php

An ansible provisioning to set-up a PHP development environment in Vagrant. Tuned for modern php applications (Symfony2, Silex, Laravel, etc.)

We (Ibsciss) use it for our php developments.

What's inside ?

Build on top of the default precise64 vagrant box, PHP5.5 & Ngninx ansible provisioning added.

Plus :

• Composer
• Php cli
• Php sqlite
• Mysql (default db, user & password : ibsciss)
• Wkhtmltopdf

Requirements

• You need to have Ansible & Vagrant installed on your computer before you start.
• A NFS shared folder is used, so you need the nfs-kernel-server package on the host to use it : apt-get install nfs-kernel-server

Recommended workflow

1. Create a directory for your project (warning: don't git clone at this step): $ mkdir my-project.
2. Clone this repository inside a "provisioning" sub-directory: $ git clone https://github.com/Ibsciss/vagrant-ansible-php my-project/provisioning.
3. Clone your php project inside a "code" sub-directory: $ git clone https://github.com/organization/my-project my-project/code.
4. Go to the provisioning folder and run vagrant up: $ cd my-project/provisioning && $ vagrant up.

Symfony installation

Note : Symfony < 2.3 installation you have to copy the app/config/parameters.yml.dist to app/config/parameters.yml.

1. After setup, login in the vagrant VM : vagrant ssh
2. Change current user to www-data : sudo -s -u www-data
3. Go to the app directory : cd /var/www
4. Install composer dependencies : composer install
5. If needed, dump assets : app/console assetic:dump
6. Install database stuffs
   • install database schema : app/console doctrine:schema:create
   • (optionnal) install fixtures : app/console doctrine:fixtures:load
7. Remove previous caches : app/console cache:clear --env=prod && app/console cache:clear
8. Open your browser, go to http://ibsciss.devel and Tada ! Your app is up and running.

Tips

in-memory cache & log

One of the biggest issue with wagrant is dealing with large amount of I/O on the shared disk. A solution is to put non-src repository which generate a lot of I/O, especially log & cache mecanism, in memory. On debian/ubuntu you have a /dev/shm which is a disk mounted in memory.

Symfony2

Overriding default cache & log directory can be achieve in AppKernel.php file :

<?php
class AppKernel extends Kernel
{
    public function getCacheDir()
    {
        if (in_array($this->environment, array('dev', 'test'))) {
            return '/dev/shm/symfony/cache/' .  $this->environment;
        }
        return parent::getCacheDir();
    }

    public function getLogDir()
    {
        if (in_array($this->environment, array('dev', 'test'))) {
            return '/dev/shm/symfony/logs';
        }
        return parent::getLogDir();
    }
}

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