Author: J. Lawson

This took me a bit to gather all the details together so I wanted to document this and maybe provide some usefulness to others. There are a number of plugins, features, configurations tricks that I’ve found extremely useful over the last several years for working with Vagrant and Chef. Below is a sample Vagrantfile that can be used as a template and is hopefully commented enough to be self explanatory. You’ll need the following plugins installed:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-berskhelf
vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus
vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager

Vagrant File:

#-----------------------------------------------------#
#- Project: vagrant-based
#- Author.: john.lawson@scriobha.im
#- Date...: 2015-03-16
#- Notes..: Base template should be usable with a dual scenario
#-----------------------------------------------------#

#- Defaults
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |c|

    #- Caching section to speed local dev/usage don't remove! -#
    if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-cachier")
        #- Configure scope
        c.cache.scope = :box

        # Enable Apt cache
        c.cache.enable :apt

        # Disable this for actual development use as this will cause issues in file refresh
        #c.cache.enable_nfs = true
    end
    #- END Caching ------------------------------------------ -#

    #- Configure vagrant-hostmanager plugin ----------------- -#
    #- Use this for managing multiple instances, mimics
    #- AWS OpsWorks DNS by hostname functionality
    if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-hostmanager")
        c.hostmanager.enabled = true
        c.hostmanager.manage_host = true
        c.hostmanager.ignore_private_ip = false
        c.hostmanager.include_offline = true
    end

    #- Define our primary instance as app1
    c.vm.define "app1", primary: true do |app1|

        #- Instance Details
        app1.vm.box = "[name of instance here - this will be the name listed in Virtual Box GUI]"

        #- Pull down an Ubuntu 14.04 base box from Amazon
        app1.vm.box_url = "https://opscode-vm-bento.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/virtualbox/opscode_ubuntu-14.04_chef-provisionerless.box"

        #- Set the hostname and alias (used in conjunction with the host manager plugin
        app1.vm.hostname = "dev-app1.local.vm"
        app1.hostmanager.aliases = %w(dev-app1.localdomain dev-app1)

        #- Network & Network Shares
        app1.vm.network(:forwarded_port, {:guest=>80, :host=>8001})
        app1.vm.network(:forwarded_port, {:guest=>443, :host=>8443})
        app1.vm.network(:private_network, {:ip=>"199.10.0.2"})
        app1.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true

        #- Setup a mount point for Apache docroot (not in /var/www/) and we'll mount it later with Chef recipe
        app1.vm.synced_folder "~/vm-mounts/project-folder", "/mnt/app-www/", create: true, :nfs=> { :mount_options=> ['rw', 'vers=3', 'tcp', 'fsc'] }

        #- Instance Customizations
        app1.vm.provider :virtualbox do |p|
            p.name = app1.vm.box
            p.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]
            p.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "1"]
        end

        #- Chef Solo Configurations & Details
        app1.berkshelf.enabled = true
        app1.omnibus.chef_version = '11.14.2'
        
        app1.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
            chef.cookbooks_path = ['.']
            chef.add_recipe 'recipe[opsworks::_local_init]'
            chef.add_recipe 'recipe[opsworks::apache2]'
            chef.json = {
                #- used locally to mimic auto DNS resolution by hostname done by AWS OpsWorks
                opsworks: {
                    local_dev: true
                },
                # Mimic Hash provided by OpsWorks
                deploy: {
                    webapp: {
                        environment: {
                            #- 10.0.2.2 is most likely your host (this allows you to keep a central DB)
                            main_dbhost: "10.0.2.2",
                            main_dbname: "dbname",
                            totara_dbuser: "dbuser",
                            totara_dbpwd: "dbpwd"
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        end
    end

    #- Define a secondary instance, could be used as NFS server, jobs server, other? Will not start unless you specifically call it
    c.vm.define "file1", autostart: false do |file1|
        #- Instance Details
        file1.vm.box = "[name of instance here - this will be the name listed in Virtual Box GUI]"

        #- Pull down an Ubuntu 14.04 base box from Amazon
        file1.vm.box_url = "https://opscode-vm-bento.s3.amazonaws.com/vagrant/virtualbox/opscode_ubuntu-14.04_chef-provisionerless.box"

        #- Set the hostname and alias (used in conjunction with the host manager plugin
        file1.vm.hostname = "dev-file1.local.vm"

        #- Network & Network Shares
        file1.vm.network(:private_network, {:ip=>"199.10.0.4"})
        file1.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true

        #- Instance Customizations
        file1.vm.provider :virtualbox do |p|
            p.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "512"]
            p.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--cpus", "1"]
        end
        file1.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
            chef.cookbooks_path = ['.']
            chef.add_recipe 'recipe[opsworks::_local_init]'
            chef.add_recipe 'recipe[opsworks::nfs-config]'
            chef.json = {
                #- used locally to mimic auto DNS resolution by hostname done by AWS OpsWorks
                opsworks: {
                    local_dev: true
                }
            }
        end
    end
end