On Tue, 2018-09-25 at 14:18 +0000, Máirín Duffy wrote: > - Is running a lightweight local VM for web development a usecase we > want to support? Is it dare I ask important? > - If so, is what I ended up setting up what we want people in that > usecase to do? (E.g. use Fedora cloud base image, set up in virt- > manager or boxes, using virt-customize to remove cloud-init and > configure login password? Hi Máirín! Have you considered using Vagrant for this? It makes it easy to script a reproducible development virtual machine, so that you can quickly destroy and recreate it on demand. I use it to develop Bodhi and I've been mostly pretty happy with it (it does have some weird warts too, but mostly works well). Bodhi uses Vagrant to start up the guest, and then Vagrant asks Ansible to configure it to be a Bodhi dev box. Here's the file that makes it go: https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/blob/3.10.0/Vagrantfile The playbook Vagrant runs is here: https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/tree/3.10.0/devel/ansible And here are instructions that describe what it's like for a developer to use it: https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/blob/3.10.0/docs/developer/vagrant.rst I recommend this or something like this over making a more "permanent" VM, because it makes it easy to share the valuable development environment with others (or even with yourself on multiple machines), and because it makes it a non-issue when the guest gets damaged in some way (rather than spending time debugging a guest I've broken, I just vagrant destroy && vagrant up, go make some coffee, and when I'm back I have a fresh working instance again).
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