Vagrant: Boost Your WordPress Development

WordPress development can be quite cumbersome, especially if you deal with different clients and everybody has own server configurations or special needs. Using Services like MAMP are great for a quick start but if you need to match certain criteria it is good to be as close as possible to live environment.

Vagrant is a tool, which lets you setup a Virtual Machine on your computer, which reflects your live environment. And people from the community already built some special VMs for WordPress developer. Setting up a new WordPress (Multi-) Site is just a mater of seconds and you’re ready to go.

This session, will teach you what Vagrant is, how you can use it and what specific WordPress solution exists to boost your WordPress development.

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1. Vagrant
   Boost Your WordPress Development
   1 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
   

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2. Hans-Helge Bürger
   @obstschale | hanshelgebuerger.de
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3. 1
   Local Development with Vagrant
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4. What is a Local
   Development?
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5. Why Do I Need It?
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6. How Can I Use It?
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7. How Can I Use It?
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8. 2
   Vagrant
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10. Vagrant Commands
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11. $ vagrant init
    "Hello, World!" in Vagrant
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12. $ vagrant up
    $ vagrant halt
    Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
    ==> default: Checking if box 'ubuntu/trusty64' is up to date...
    ==> default: There was a problem while downloading the metadata for your box
    ==> default: to check for updates. This is not an error, since it is usually due
    ==> default: to temporary network problems. This is just a warning. The problem
    ==> default: encountered was:
    ==> default: Forwarding ports...
    default: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
    ==> default: Running 'pre-boot' VM customizations...
    ==> default: Booting VM...
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13. $ vagrant status
    Current machine states:
    default poweroff (virtualbox)
    The VM is powered off. To restart the VM, simply run `vagrant up`
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14. $ vagrant provision
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15. $ vagrant ssh
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16. $ vagrant destroy
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17. $ vagrant help
    Don't Panic!
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18. Vagrantfile
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19. Vagrantfile
    # -*- mode: ruby -*-
    # vi: set ft=ruby :
    Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
    config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
    config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
    # config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"
    config.vm.synced_folder "www/", "/srv/www/"
    config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y apache2
    SHELL
    end
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20. 3
    Vagrant Demo
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21. 4
    Varying Vagrant Vagrants
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23. Variable VVV
    a VVV Site Creation Wizard
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24. 5
    VVV Demo
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25. 6
    More Awesome Stuff
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26. Theme Juice
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27. Vagrant Manager
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29. Vagrant Plugins
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30. Vagrantbox.es
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31. VVV Dashboards
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34. Recap
    http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
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35. Hans-Helge Bürger
    Thank You
    @obstschale
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