vagrant-dev-box

Lightweight Ubuntu box to use as dev env/playground

Introduction

This will put together a VM using VirtualBox and Vagrant that will have some of the basic software and settings needed to do java development in as well as Selenium-server and browser drivers to execute local tests againsts.

Requirements

1. You need to have VirtualBox already installed in the host system.

Installation

1. Install Vagrant.
2. Clone this git repository.
3. Run the command vagrant up.

This vagrant works for Virtualbox, on a 64 bits machine.

Software that will be installed

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Maven3
• Intellij IDEA Community Edition (latest version) + Basic config and google coding style for Java by default.
• Option to use Intellij IDEA Ultimate Edition in bootstrap.sh (latest version, you'll need a license for it).
• Git + some basic aliases in .gitconfig and tweaks in .git-prompt.sh.
• Java 8 installed and used by default.
• Java 7 also present in /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_65/.
• OpenVPN.
• Gitg.
• i3 as the window manager/desktop environment.
  • i3 is set by default to use ALT as the mod key. Using the windows key isn't the best option when running in a Windows host.
  • i3 Reference Card with basic commands and help.
  • i3 User's Guide

Browser support

• Firefox (latest version).
• Google Chrome (latest version).