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
2. Hans-Helge Bürger @obstschale | hanshelgebuerger.de 2 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
3. 1 Local Development with Vagrant 3 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
4. What is a Local Development? 4 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
5. Why Do I Need It? 5 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
6. How Can I Use It? 6 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
7. How Can I Use It? 7 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
8. 2 Vagrant 8 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
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10. Vagrant Commands 10 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
11. $ vagrant init "Hello, World!" in Vagrant 11 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
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... 12 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
13. $ vagrant status Current machine states: default poweroff (virtualbox) The VM is powered off. To restart the VM, simply run `vagrant up` 13 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
14. $ vagrant provision 14 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
15. $ vagrant ssh 15 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
16. $ vagrant destroy 16 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
17. $ vagrant help Don't Panic! 17 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
18. Vagrantfile 18 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
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 19 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
20. 3 Vagrant Demo 20 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
21. 4 Varying Vagrant Vagrants 21 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
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23. Variable VVV a VVV Site Creation Wizard 23 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
24. 5 VVV Demo 24 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
25. 6 More Awesome Stuff 25 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
26. Theme Juice 26 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
27. Vagrant Manager 27 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
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29. Vagrant Plugins 29 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
30. Vagrantbox.es 30 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
31. VVV Dashboards 31 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
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34. Recap http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15 34 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15
35. Hans-Helge Bürger Thank You @obstschale 35 — WordCamp Norrköping 2015 – Hans-Helge Bürger - http://buer.gr/wcnkpg15