Magical WordPress Development with Vagrant. WordCamp Austin 2014 by Chris Olbekson

1. Chris Olbekson
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WordPress Developer
Twitter: @chris_olbekson
Houston, TX
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2. Magical WordPress
Development With
Vagrant

4. Chris Olbekson @chris_olbekson
$ fink remove --recursive daemonic xinitrc
$ sudo rm -rf /opt/local
$ brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
$ brew install php53 —with-fpm —with-mysql
nginx mysql
$ echo export PATH="$(brew —prefix
josegonzalez/php/php55)/bin:/usr/local/
bin:$PATH” > ~/.bash_profile
Fink Brew

8. Vagrant

9. How did we get here?
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11. My WordPress Toolbox
circa 2005
Connect to a remote machine (usually I do development on my
laptop, locally, but sometimes I’ll work from another computer):
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$ ssh -l remote_username example.com
$ mkdir /path/to/wordpress/
$ cd /path/to/wordpress/
$ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/ .
$ nano filename.php

13. Minimum Requirements
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PHP 5.2.4 or greater
MySQL 5.0 or greater
The mod_rewrite Apache module
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Local LAMP Environments
PHP, MySQL and Apache
Binaries for Windows and Mac
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14. Minimum Requirements
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XAMPP, MAMP, WAMP
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Point and click stable LAMP
sandboxes
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Environment Requirements
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Ngnix
Memcached
Varnish
Squid

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Environment Requirements
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Ngnix
Memcached
Varnish
Squid

17. Vagrant
is the magical
WordPress development
environment you’ve
been looking for
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18. What is Vagrant?
Vagrant is open source software
for creating and configuring
portable development
environments.
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http://www.vagrantup.com/about.html

19. 1. Host
2. Guest
3. Box
4. Provisioning
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Anotomy of a Vagrant
Virtual Machine

20. .VagrantFile
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21. provision.sh
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22. Puppet
Chef
Salt
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23. $ vagrant up
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$ vagrant destroy

24. Varying Vagrant Vagrants
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The primary goal of Varying Vagrant Vagrants
(VVV) is to provide an approachable way for
developers to begin working in a development
environment that matches a production
environment as closely as possible.
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“The gateway Vagrant Config”
— Jeremy Felt
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https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV

25. VVV Site Wizard
Bash script for spinning up new WordPress sites
with VVV
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WordPress Theme Review VVV
Creates a WordPress site set up with all
the tools the Wordpress dot org theme
review team uses.
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Primary Vagrant
Uses Apache instead of Nginx and provisions
with Puppet instead of bash
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26. 13 Vagrant Resources for
WordPress Development
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http://wptavern.com/13-vagrant-resources-
for-wordpress-development
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27. VIP Quick Start
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Closely resembles the
WordPress dot com VIP
stack
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28. The Future?
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.VagrantFile in core
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Hosting providers publishing a .VagrantFile
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Hello WP Engine, HostGator, Media Temple
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29. Questions?
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Comments?
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