This vagrant image will kick start your development in a self contained ubuntu precise32 box with all the neccessities installed. The developers just need to configure their eclipse to the shared tomcat filesystem and it's "hakuna matata" all over! Will add more instructions with a sample project in the next few days.

Ensure you have the following tools installed:

• virtualbox - https://www.virtualbox.org/
• vagrant - http://www.vagrantup.com/
• URL to current apache-tomcat-7.x.x.tar.gz (Ex http://apache.mirrors.pair.com/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.50/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.52.tar.gz)
  • Update the $tomcat_url definition in manifests/default.pp if the url is out of date.
• librarian-puppet - https://github.com/rodjek/librarian-puppet
  • puppet installation is optional, the modules have been added as gitsubmodules and pushed to the repo. It's necessary only if you think the modules are outdated

###Do the following:

• $ vagrant box add precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box

  • This will download the VM for you

• $ git clone https://github.com/seshendra/vagrant-ubuntu-tomcat7.git

  • clone this repoistory (it's your working vagrant location)

• If librarian-puppet is installed, grab the puppet modules:

  • $ cd vagrant-ubuntu-tomcat7/manifests
  • $ librarian-puppet install
  • $ cd ..

• Otherwise, if librarian-puppet is not installed, clone the puppet modules

  • $ cd vagrant-ubuntu-tomcat7
  • $ git submodule init
  • $ git submodule update

• $ vagrant up

  • brings up the VM with tomcat and java installed.
  • This can take anywhere between 20-30 minutes, so issue the command and go have some coffee or attend a meeting or watch a video while vagrant does it's job.
  • If you are in a VPN, ensure *ubuntu.com and *apache.com are open for downloads in your organization.

• $ vagrant ssh

  • Login to your instance.

• Tomcat is set at auto-start to false
  • use sudo supervisorctl start tomcat to start tomcat
• Vagrant is setup to map port 8080 of the VM to port 4880 on your machine
  • http://localhost:4880/
• JMX support is enabled on the server: Vagrant is setup to map port 1099 of the VM to port 1099 on your machine, allowing for monitoring and remote deployment.
• Tomcat is started in debug mode: Vagrant is setup to map port 8000 of the VM to port 4800 on your machine, allowing for debugging from your IDE.

• After box is configured and provisioned, you can package and use this as your base box to speed up your subsequent reloads
• vagrant package
• mv package.box precise32-maven-tomcat7.box
• vagrant box add precise32-maven-tomcat7 precise32-maven-tomcat7.box
• Use precise32-maven-tomcat7 as the name of the box in your VagrantFile config.vm.box = "precise32-maven-tomcat7"