This Hugo Blog in a Vagrant Environment

Vagrant from Hashicorp is great way to abstract away from virtualization or infrastructure technology like Virtualbox, VMware, Microsoft HyperV, Cloud Providers etc. You just declare what you need and like magic everything is ready for use after some minutes.

Cutting to the chase here is my setup to edit this Blog. Of course I need Vagrant installed, but this is not a problem as I use it in my everyday Job also.

myboxname = "gabi"

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/xenial64"
  config.vm.hostname = myboxname
  config.vm.box_check_update = false
  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10"
  config.vm.synced_folder "./data", "/data"

  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
     vb.gui = false
     vb.name = myboxname
     vb.memory = "512"
     vb.linked_clone = true
   end

  #
  # Provides updated git
  #
  config.vm.provision "git", type: "shell" do |s|
    s.inline = <<-SHELL
      apt-get update
      apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates software-properties-common
      apt-get update
      add-apt-repository -y ppa:git-core/ppa
      apt-get install -y git
      git --version
      SHELL
  end

  #
  # Install Hugo binary (no Go interpreter needed)
  #
  config.vm.provision "hugo", type: "shell" do |s|
    s.inline = <<-SHELL
      cd /usr/local/bin
      HUGOVER=0.46
      TARFILE=hugo_${HUGOVER}_Linux-64bit.tar.gz CHKFILE=hugo_${HUGOVER}_checksums.txt
      wget -q --no-check-certificate https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v${HUGOVER}/$TARFILE -O $TARFILE
      wget -q --no-check-certificate https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v${HUGOVER}/$CHKFILE -O $CHKFILE 
      sha256sum --ignore-missing -c $CHKFILE || exit 1
      tar xf $TARFILE
      rm -f $TARFILE $CHKFILE
      hugo version
      SHELL
  end
end

What do you have?

• Ubuntu Xenial with up to date Git installation & Hugo 0.46 binary.
• Mounts the path data to /data where you can clone your blog.
• You can edit the Blog from within the vagrant box or from the host machine using the mounted path.

See my notes here to get more details.

Thanks!