What is it:

It is an 'out of the box' vm configured for Geo Django, using Chef and Vagrant

• It installs and sets up postgresql with postgis
• It installs nginx
• It installs some utils (vim, screen and git)
• It installs some useful python utils (pip, virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper)
• It fixes VirtualBox issue where shared folders to not work due to addon/guesttools not being installed

What it builds/prepares:

• apt - updates
• apt-upgrade upgrades vm packages (disabled by default)
• build-essential
• database - postgres + postgis
• geos - installs
• proj4 - installs
• git - installs
• nginx - installs
• python-pip - installs
• python-virtualenv - installs
• virtualenvwrapper - installs and adds virtualenvwrapper to profile
• screen - installs
• vim - installs
• virtualbox-guesttools - installs guest tools so that shared folders work

What it doesn't build/prepare:

• django - you should install this in your virtualenv

What doesn't it build/prepare but will do soon:

• user setup
• fabric template for project creation / deployment

Notes

I am using the default lucid32 box with vagrant. This is the only box I have tested this on. Feel free to report back your experiences on other boxes and I will keep this updated.

How to use it

$ vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box
$ git clone https://github.com/eamonnfaherty/geodjango-env.git
$ cd geodjango-env
$ vim cookbooks/database/attributes/default.rb #edit db conf
$ vagrant up

Thanks to

• The guys at caffeinehit for their version which I used as a base : https://github.com/caffeinehit/chef-geodjango Thank you guys!