Drupal VM

Introduction

This article documents the progress on building a Drupal 8 VM for development purposes on thorin (128.111.101.138). We will be using Vagrant to install a Drupal 8 VM and using Ansible to provision the VM.

Purpose

The purpose of this page is to document progress of installing a Drupal VM using Vagrant and Ansible, emphasis on Drupal 8 installation with Composer as opposed to drush make, as well as looking into theming the installation. I have been following geerlingguy's drupal-vm guide:

• https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-vm
• Drupal VM Install Guide

Other helpful links:

• Using Vagrant and Ansible

Installation Procedures

• Refer to the Quick Start Guide.
• Install Ansible on the host machine (thorin) for faster provisioning in the vm
  • https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-vagrant-examples/tree/master/drupal

Install options:

We can install Drupal 8 with composer with 2 different ways:

• composer create-project

which allows you to specify parameters to build up your Drupal installation; or build from a custom

• composer.json.

We opt for the second option. Although our composer.json file is blank, this option allows us to customize our install more easily.

Drupal VM Basic Information

• Drupalvm is running in a VirtualBox VM under thorin (128.111.101.138). It can be accessed by going to [1] on thorin.
• Default login:

admin:admin

• Running Drupal 7.x.

References

• https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/provisioning/ansible_intro.html
• http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/guide_vagrant.html
• https://github.com/geerlingguy/drupal-vm