Python and Django on Vagrant - Abu Ashraf Masnun

Well, this is going to be another straight forward post with loads of shell commands. The background is simple, I love OS X for the many apps it offers but at the same time I always had the joy of developing on a Linux machine. I decided to use Vagrant to have one central box for my projects. I use separate vagrant boxes for complicated projects. But didn’t like the idea of having individual boxes for simple ones.

I work on Python and Django a lot. So in this post I am going to document my setup.

Vagrant File:

# I have assigned a private IP to the box
# I have assigned a hostname to it.
# I am using Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 64 bit as my base box (which I already have added)

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :

# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  
  config.vm.box = "precise64"

  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.234.131"
  config.vm.hostname = "tardis.dev"
end

# -*- mode: ruby -*-

# vi: set ft=ruby :

# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

config.vm.box = "precise64"

config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.234.131"

config.vm.hostname = "tardis.dev"

end

Hosts File (/etc/hosts):

192.168.234.131 tardis.dev

1	192.168.234.131 tardis.dev

After I setup the box, I logged in using SSH:

vagrant ssh

1	vagrant ssh

Now, the usual Ubuntu setup.

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install virtualenv
mkdir ~/.virtualenvs
sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper
sudo apt-get install python-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpq-dev

sudo apt-get install python-pip

sudo pip install virtualenv

mkdir ~/.virtualenvs

sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

sudo apt-get install python-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpq-dev

Bash Profile in the Ubuntu machine:

# To make the Django built in server available from outside the box I need to run it on 0.0.0.0 so that it listens on all interfaces. So I added a handy alias.

# Added the virtualenv stuff to the profile

# Virtual Env
export WORKON_HOME=~/.virtualenvs
. /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

# Aliases
alias djrun="python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"

# Virtual Env

export WORKON_HOME=~/.virtualenvs

. /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

# Aliases

alias djrun="python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"

Bootstrapping a project:

mkvirtualenv project
cd ~/project
pip install -r requirements.txt

## Later
workon env_name
djrun

mkvirtualenv project

cd ~/project

pip install -r requirements.txt

## Later

workon env_name

djrun

Now the app would be available on: http://tardis.dev:8000

I also modify the ~/.virtualenvs//bin/postactivate script to cd into the project source directory. Saves time when I hit “workon env_name”

That’s it 🙂

8 replies on “Python and Django on Vagrant”

Nice post!

You can also automate the dependency installation via Vagrant provisioning, https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/provisioning/.

Yes, I would probably put this in a shell script and setup provisioning. Just wanted to share what I did.

And I would probably package the box in a stable state and save it somewhere for future usages 🙂

Which markdown do you use in the comment section?

Not really sure. I use the rich text formatting tools.

[…] Python and Django on Vagrant […]

You have skipped many important steps like – vagrant up, so if a beginner is reading this article he will receive a serious error which will become a headache for him.

Anyone who would understand how a Vagrant file works should know to do vagrant up before doing vagrant ssh. But yes, it’s not beginner friendly. It was not supposed to be.

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