Nginx + php-fpm test environment

It is a self-configurable Vagrant box for a development web server.
All setup and provisioning are done via well-known automation Chef.
Provisioning includes the following tasks:

• scanning of a shared vagrant directory (shared/) structure to get project list and settings (provision.json in each project directory)
• configuration of nginx virtual hosts with the data from projects’ settings
• setting up hosts file with project’s hostname

Deploy test environment

• Clone project git clone https://github.com/dmitrievav/nginx-php-fpm-test-lab.git
• Change current work directory cd nginx-php-fpm-test-lab
• Run vagrant up
• Run ruby ./HostsUpdate.rb

Tests and Demo

• Open test web site
• Try curl -i -H 'Host: web-site-name1.dev' #{vbox_ip}
• Watch demo

Prerequisites

Supported OS

• Mac OS as Host system
• Any Linux as VM (tested on Ubuntu 14.04)

Install and customize VirtualBox

• Download virtualbox
• create host-only network vboxnet0 10.0.0.0/24
• set the route: sudo route add 10.0.0.0/24 -interface vboxnet0

Install Vagrant

• Download Vagrant
• Install vagrant-berkshelf plugin
• Install vagrant-omnibus plugin

Content description

• shared/*: www projects
• shared/*/provision.json: project’s settings
• Vagrantfile: vbox initial settings
• chef/cookbooks/*: Auxiliary community cookbooks
• chef/cookbooks/provision: Chef cookbook that installs and costomizes Nginx + php-fpm more details
• HostsUpdate.rb: Updates /etc/hosts file on host system