WordPress & Vagrant

WordPress & Vagrant

What is Vagrant?

– docs.vagrantup.com

“Vagrant provides easy to configure, reproducible, and portable work environments built on top of industry-standard technology and controlled by a single consistent workflow to help maximize the productivity and flexibility of you and your team.

Vagrant makes sandboxeswe play in them

What does that mean?+ self-contained, isolated environments

+ reproducible and disposable

+ matches production environment

+ clean

+ fast

+ dependable

basic terminal commands+ cd+ vagrant up+ vagrant destroy

bonus terminal commands+ ls+ mv+ cp+ vagrant halt+ man

Developing WordPress sites with Vagrant

$

WordPress codebaseWordPress codebase

Vagrant Workflow

vagrant virtual machine

$ vagrant up

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Vagrant Workflow

$

WordPress codebase

vagrant destroy

Vagrant Workflow

WordPress Vagrant Projects+ VVV (Varying Vagrant Vagrants)

+ Trellis (a part of the roots.io project)

+ Salty-WordPress

+ VCCW

+ and plenty more

Common pitfalls+ Full provisioning

+ Long wait on vagrant up

+ Precious

+ Lots of idiosyncratic upfront configuration

+ Most can’t run multiple simultaneous VMs

+ Lousy with managed hosting

Managed WordPress Hosting

+ WordPress hosting is a solved problem

+ Small teams can do more

+ peace of mind

Development Environment Design Goals

+ Fast to set up

+ Always install the latest WordPress release

+ Pre-bake common components into a standard base box

+ Apache and mods

+ PHP

+ PHP error reporting

+ MySQL

+ Setup user accounts

+ Configure server

+ define default sites

+ etc.

basic-wordpress-box basic-wordpresss-vagrant

+ Apache and mods

+ PHP

+ PHP error reporting

+ MySQL

+ Setup user accounts

+ Configure server

+ define default sites

+ etc.

+ Install & configure WordPress

+ Load Database

basic-wordpress-box basic-wordpresss-vagrant

Advantages of basic-wordpresss-vagrant

+ Very, very fast to spin up

+ Virtually no configuration

+ Low technical barrier to entry

+ Multiple simultaneous VMs work great

+ Lightweight, VM saves disk space

How fast?

V V V vagrant up

23 minutes 10 seconds

Trellis (Roots.io) vagrant up

10 minutes 40 seconds

Elapsed time from “cold boot”

How fast?

V V V vagrant up

23 minutes 10 seconds

Trellis (Roots.io) vagrant up

10 minutes 40 seconds

basic-wordpress-vagrant vagrant up

51 seconds

Elapsed time from “cold boot”

DEMO

GitHub /ideasonpurpose/basic-wordpress-vagrant

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