This is an unofficial guide for installing CARTO in a Vagrant VM. It's useful for development, hiring tests (take a look at CARTO open positions)... It deals with subtle differences with Ubuntu distributions and Vagrant specifics.

Install Vagrant. This has been tested with Vagrant 1.9.1 and VirtualBox 5.1.22.

Next steps take ~1:30 hour, mostly downloading and compiling the whole Internet. Twice.

Some commands, such as vagrant up or npm install, take a while.

This set ups a Vagrant VM with Ubuntu 12 and ssh into it:

vagrant up
vagrant ssh
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vim

Previous notes:

• I'd suggest you to go to your home (cd ~) before every git clone.
• Before running node app.js development for Node servers, do this:
  • For SQL API you must edit config/environments/development.js and set module.exports.node_host to 0.0.0.0.
  • For Windshaft you must edit config/environments/development.js and set config.host to 0.0.0.0.
• You'll be prompted for the password on bundle install. It's vagrant.
• Python dependencies installation of cartodb only work if you do it with the warning suggestion (sudo CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/gdal C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/gdal PATH=$PATH:/usr/include/gdal pip install --no-use-wheel -r python_requirements.txt).

Follow CARTO installation guide.

Create a user.

Add your user to /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1       juanignaciosl.localhost.lan

Afterwards, you'll be able to login at http://juanignaciosl.localhost.lan:3000/login with your new user.