Best Practices Setting up Your Local Development Environment

• Vagrant

  116 25,897 9.0 Ruby

  Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.

  

However, creating and setting up a Virtual Machine manually is not the best in terms of productivity. The solution is to use a tool that will allow you to create and set up these environments automatically. This tool is Vagrant.

• Ansible

  391 61,282 9.8 Python

  Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

  

A shell script could work, but the best option is to use an orchestration/automation tool like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt. Using these tools you can define the steps needed to set up your project in a set of files, and just by invoking vagrant provision the VM will be set up. The advantage is that setting up a new development environment with this method is easy, fast, and can be shared with all the members of the project.

• InfluxDB

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• podman

  359 21,816 10.0 Go

  Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

  

Podman: An alternative container engine with the same CLI interface as the docker command.

• docker-node

  62 8,077 8.3 Shell

  Official Docker Image for Node.js :whale: :turtle: :rocket:

  

Docker Hub is a container image library where you can find interesting images to use in your projects like the Apache image, Nginx image, PHP image, Node.js image, MySQL image, etc. These images are ready to use, and they come with instructions about how to use them. Usually, you have to pass environment variables to the container and/or tweak a couple of config files.

• hub-feedback

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  Feedback and bug reports for the Docker Hub

  

Instead of having to install and set up every service, you can use containers. With containers, you can take profit from existing images built officially. You only need to run a container with the software you need and it will start in a matter of seconds. It will take an extra time the first time because Docker needs to download the image from Docker Hub.

• Docker Compose

  390 32,471 9.6 Go

  Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

  

Imagine a project where you need two containers: a Node.js container and a Database container. One option would be to start both containers from the command line using the docker run command and passing every argument needed (files to mount, environment variables, ports to publish, etc). However, this is a manual process and is error-prone. There is a better solution to manage a set of containers: Docker Compose.

• Chocolatey

  394 9,916 8.9 C#

  Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  

The specific package manager depends on your Operating System. In macOS the most popular tool is Homebrew. In Linux distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, you can use apt, and in RedHat/CentOS distributions you can use yum. In Windows the most popular tool is Chocolatey.

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• HomeBrew

  1,284 39,552 10.0 Ruby

  🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  

The specific package manager depends on your Operating System. In macOS the most popular tool is Homebrew. In Linux distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, you can use apt, and in RedHat/CentOS distributions you can use yum. In Windows the most popular tool is Chocolatey.

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