Wednesday 5 September 2018

Setting up a isolated development environment

Very often whenever we wanted to do a POC or a new project which depends on many different tools. frameworks or software, we prefer to start it with an isolated development environment without affecting our other tasks. The good option for that is to use a virtual OS running on top of our host OS, below steps helps to get started with setting up such an environment 




Steps to set up a working environment in a Virtual box

1. Install Oracle VM Virtual Box in host machine
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

2. Download the preferred VDI OS image from the below link (eg: Ubuntu 16.04)
https://www.osboxes.org/virtualbox-images/

3. Create a new Virtual Machine in Virtual Box from the downloaded VDI file

4. Setting the bridged network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDF4X7RmV4Q&t=865s

5. Installing the java and maven
https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-install-apache-maven-on-ubuntu-16-04

6. Installing Eclipse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=391&v=EiGl2Ag35AI

7. Installing MySQL
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mysql-on-ubuntu-16-04

8. Installing Docker
https://www.vultr.com/docs/installing-docker-ce-on-ubuntu-16-04

9. Installing docker-compose
https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

10. Installing AWS CLI from the bundle
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/awscli-install-bundle.html

11. Installing Php 5.6 or 7.0
https://tecadmin.net/install-php5-on-ubuntu/