Vagrant Box VM on top of VirtualBox with: Rhel8, Lemp stack, Laravel ecosystem components

Scaffolding to make VirtualBox/Vagrant VM with:

• RedHat 8 (Rhel 8),
• nginx,
• mysql,
• php 7.4,
• composer,
• git,
• node,
• npm
• vagrant user/group configuration More:
• Oracle Connector (Oci8 php ext)

Main configuration file:

Vagrantfile

A) Full Environment scaffolding

Run provisioner script, passing some env variables:

For DACOS proj. --> for ORACLE DB connector: in PROD server install manually oci8-2.2.0.tgz php extension (FORBIDDEN BY COMPANY FIREWALL RULES)

1. On Linux

RHEL_USERNAME='username' RHEL_PASSWORD='password' APP_NAME='example_name' vagrant up --provision

or

RHEL_USERNAME='username' RHEL_PASSWORD='password' APP_NAME='example_name' vagrant reload --provision (Imp: use single quotes for pswd)

2. On Windows

Set ENV variables directly from shell (CLI) with: $Env:APP_NAME = 'example'

Or

Use: CMD shell (NOT Powershell) to set env variables

set RHEL_USERNAME='username' && set RHEL_PASSWORD='password' && set APP_NAME='example_name' && vagrant up --provision

(If there is error with subscription manager (to rhel site), connect directly via ssh into VM and doing direct subscription with: subscription-manager register and subscription-manager attach. Then exit from VM and vagrant reload --provision

Or

Set directly APP_NAME env variable into Vagrantfile config file

Important: create key with ssh-keygen like a vagrant user (NOT root).--> create it manually inside the VM (like NOT root user)

Rhel username & password are your subscription-manager credential to rhel 8 site

https://access.redhat.com/management

If already provisioned, simply:

vagrant up

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B) Application Scaffolding

1. Clone Laravel app:

git clone <laravel-application>

2. Add .env configuration

nano .env

3. Create DB and db User

mysql -uroot -p (empty pswd)

mysql> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS db_name;

mysql> CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'@'localhost';

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

For DB configuration: you can use mysql_secure_installation too, as alternative, to manually configure DB, root usr/pswd, creates User, DB, ecc..

4. Init Composer & NPM

composer install

npm install

5. Run deploy script

example: ./deploy.sh