Testing with Vagrant

This is really easy. Vagrant includes an Ansible provisioner and will run the playbook when you first run vagrant up and again when you run vagrant provision.

While Vagrant knows about Ansible, and the playbook specification is in your VagrantFile, you still must have Ansible itself available.

If you've installed Ansible globally, no other steps are necessary. If you wish to use a virtualenv to contain your Ansible installation, it's a little more work to get going:

cd ansible.playbook
virtualenv ./
bin/pip install ansible
bin/pip install ansible-vagrant
vagrant up

bin/ansible-playbook-vagrant playbook.yml

Common errors

ssh stores host keys and checks them every time you try to reconnect to the same address. Since your Vagrant installs are always at the same host and port (127.0.0.1:2222), you will receive SSH Error: Host key verification failed while connecting to 127.0.0.1:2222 error messages each time you install and connect with a new virtual box.

To resolve these errors, use the command:

ssh-keygen -f "~/.ssh/known_hosts" -R [127.0.0.1]:2222

to remove the old host key, then try again.

Testing

Vagrant maps host ports into the guest VirtualBox OS. The standard mapping takes host port 2222 to the guest's SSH port, 22.

The Vagrantfile included with this kit maps several more ports. The general rule is to map each guest port to a host port 1000 higher:

config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 1080
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 1080, host: 2080
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 6081, host: 7081
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8080, host: 9080
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 4949, host: 5949

Note that when you use host port 1080 to connect to guest host 80, the virtual hosting will not work correctly. You'll get the homepage, but links -- including those to stylesheets and JS resources, will be wrong. So, you can't really test virtual host rewriting via Vagrant.