✨ Add command to install or update a vagrant development environment

[tkilias]

Summary

Add a command line command which allows a user to install or update a vagrant development environment from templates managed in this project.

Details

• We already have some copies of a prototype https://github.com/exasol/integration-test-docker-environment/tree/main/vagrant
• We should deliver with this project a core setup for the development environment
• However, each repository might need to extend it
  • This means we need a way, how each repository can inject its extension
• Currently, we use bash scripts for the basic setup, which can be annoying to maintain, maybe we should move to ansible
• We should support libvirt (linux), virtualbox (MacOSX) and hyperv (Windows), if possible, these are the hypervisors used by our team

Background & Context

• A vagrant development environment helps with setting up a Virtual Machine with all dependencies necessary to run and test your code.
  • This is especially necessary, if you need to interact with docker and your host system doesn't provide docker.
  • Furthermore, in case you break something in your current VM, you simply destroy it and start a new one, without the tedious setup process.
• We already have multiple copies of this in many repositories, and maintaining all them is tedious.

Examples

• https://github.com/exasol/integration-test-docker-environment/tree/main/vagrant

References

• https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs
• https://github.com/exasol/script-languages-release/blob/master/doc/user_guide/vagrant.md
• https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt

Task(s)

• Add core templates
• Develop extension mechanism
• Refactor setup scripts
• Add hypervisors

[tkilias]

List of improvements:

• https://github.com/exasol/advanced-analytics-framework/pull/106/files/ff0006d860fe36fbe3a874d977ff5386fc7bd2c0#r1219270868