Drifter

Drifter is a framework to help provision developer boxes using Ansible and Vagrant.

Requirements

• Vagrant >= 1.6.2 (on Windows you need >= 1.8.1)
• Ansible >= 1.7.2 (starting with Vagrant 1.8.1 this dependency is optional)

You also need a virtualization solution, either one of those :

• Virtualbox >= 4.3
• LXC >= 1.0 & vagrant-lxc >= 1.0.0.alpha.2

Optional dependencies :

• vagrant-hostmanager >= 1.5.0 (will be automatically used if installed, make sure it's at least 1.5.0 if you have it)

Documentation

You can find the complete documentation on Read The Docs : https://liip-drifter.readthedocs.io/

TL;DR;

To install it in your project, simply run the following in your project root :

curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liip/drifter/master/install.sh | /bin/bash

This will create a Vagrantfile in your root and a virtualization folder containing configuration option. You now have to follow those two steps :

• edit virtualization/parameters.yml to set parameters related to your project
• edit virtualization/playbook.yml to configure what to install in your box

You now just have to launch your Vagrant box and start hacking :

vagrant up

Beforehand, we highly recommend installing the vagrant-hostmanager plugin so that your /etc/hosts/ file is automatically updated with the correct ip :

vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager

If you are a lucky linux user, you can use the LXC provider to have a much quicker box :

vagrant plugin install vagrant-lxc
vagrant up --provider lxc