Ubuntu Dev VM Build Steps

Goals

Produce a stable and contemporary development environment for my day to day use.

Expected Benefits

• Reduced complexity and dependancy issues
• A more robust and flexible development environment
• A portable development environment
• Good support for AWS and Azure

Desired Outcomes

I want to be able to boot strap the whole environment into a new fresh VM quickly and easily I want to be able to share my github repos between my VM and my Mac. I want my Atom environment config to be kept in Github.

Requirements

Build scripts and configs must be stored in my personal Github bucket

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Hostbuild script

Use the script below to do all the following things automagically. https://github.com/andrew-best-diaxion/andrews-configs/blob/master/hostbuild/ubuntu-desktop-build.sh

Base OS

• Create new VM in Fusion/VMware Workstation
  • Install with defaults
• Perform base OS update 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade`
• After first boot, install 'open-vm-tools-desktop'
• Reboot
• Disable guest access http://tipsonubuntu.com/2016/10/14/remove-guest-ubuntu-16-10-login-screen/ sudo vim /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-no-guest.conf and add the following line:

[SeatDefaults]
allow-guest=false

Apps

• Chrome

https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/google_chrome?dist=stable (runs like a dog though)
wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

• Atom

https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/latest (unofficial PPA: http://tipsonubuntu.com/2016/08/05/install-atom-text-editor-ubuntu-16-04/)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atom

• git (I think the atom installer installed this anyway)
• Install and config your python environment which AWS CLI needs.
  • check if python is already installed python -V or python3 -V
  • Its probably already there, if no do a sudo apt-get install python
  • now install pip using Ubuntu packages. sudo apt-get install python-pip
  • now install latest pip updates pip install --upgrade pip
• AWS CLI pip install awscli
• AWS bash completion is handled by bashrc. See https://github.com/andrew-best-diaxion/andrews-configs
• AWS Shell sudo pip install aws-shell See https://github.com/awslabs/aws-shell
• Azure CLI
• PowerShell for Linux https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell (Get started with PowerShell)

Customisations

• AWS CLI profile switcher https://blog.jayway.com/2015/09/25/aws-cli-profile-management-made-easy/
• Tune Window Manager
  • CompizConfig (https://www.greenhousedata.com/blog/set-up-and-optimize-ubuntu-and-other-linux-vmware-guests)
  • Make the mouse icon larger
  • See: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/customize-ubuntu-16-04-lts-desktop/ & http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/10/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-16-10
• Customise grub to boot more pretty http://askubuntu.com/questions/18444/how-do-i-increase-console-mode-resolution
• Install https://github.com/Diaxion/andrews-configs
• Checkinto git-credentials-cache https://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-store

Some Day

Items here will be included in the future.

• Workout how to get cloud-init working in VMware Fusion.
• Make sure the display driver is setup correctly for VMware SVGA driver. https://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html