What is it?

A Vagrant configuration that starts up a PostgreSQL database in a virtual machine. This was original forked from https://github.com/jackdb/pg-app-dev-vm and modified for the purpose of creating a postgreSQL test environment. It includes the Pagila sample database that was cloned from https://github.com/devrimgunduz/pagila.git

Installation

First install Vagrant and Virtual Box.

Then, run the following to create a new PostgreSQL pagila database virtual machine:

# Clone it locally:
$ git clone https://github.com/berkanyiildirim/postgresql-pagila-vm.git pg-pagila

# Enter the cloned directory:
$ cd pg-pagila

# Delete the old .git and README:
$ rm -rf README.md .git LICENSE

# Optionally edit the database username/password and PostgreSQL version (default 13):
$ $EDITOR Vagrant-setup/bootstrap.sh

Usage

# Start up the virtual machine:
$ vagrant up

# Stop the virtual machine:
$ vagrant halt

What does it do?

It creates a virtual server running Centos7 with the latest version of PostgreSQL (as of writing 13) installed. It setup Pagila database and edits the PostgreSQL configuration files to allow network access.

Once it has started up it will print out how to access the database on the virtual machine. It will look something like this:

$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
[... truncated ...]
Your PostgreSQL database has been setup and can be accessed on your local machine on the forwarded port (default: 15432)
  Host: localhost
  Port: 15432
  Database: pagila
  Username: pagila
  Password: dbpass

Admin access to postgres user via VM:
  vagrant ssh
  sudo su - postgres

psql access to pagila database user via VM:
  vagrant ssh
  sudo su - postgres
  PGUSER=pagila PGPASSWORD=dbpass psql -h localhost pagila

Env variable for application development:
  DATABASE_URL=postgresql://pagila:dbpass@localhost:15432/pagila

Local command to access the database via psql:
  PGUSER=pagila PGPASSWORD=dbpass psql -h localhost -p 15432 pagila

Why use the shell provisioner?

Or alternatively, why not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Salt?

Mainly because it's simple and anybody with a basic knowledge of shell scripting can tweak the bootstrap.sh to their liking.

License

This is released under the MIT license. See the file LICENSE.