This is a Vagrant configuration for running the latest version of RethinkDB on a virtual 64bit 14.04 Ubuntu machine. You can use this for whatever you want, but this is particularly useful for running RethinkDB on a Windows machine.
I'm going to describe the entire process. If you are already familiar with something, just skip it :)
Throughout this process, we're gonna need to install some applications. Just so it's easier, let's use Chocolatey.
Open Powershell as an administrator and run this command:
iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
... now you should have Chocolatey installed. We're gonna use to install the others.
Run this as an administrator:
choco install vagrant -y
Vagrant relies on a virtualization application that it calls a "provider". The default one is VirtualBox so let's install it. Run cmd as administrator and run this:
choco install virtualbox -y
Now you should be able to run the vboxmanage command. If it doesn't work, make sure C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox is in your PATH.
We're gonna log on a virtual machine using SSH, so we need a SSH enabled terminal. For that, let's use Cygwin.
choco install cyg-get -y
There'are two Cygwin packages we need to install, openssh, because Cygwin doesn't have SSH support by default, and rsync so Vagrant can use it to synchronize files between the host and the guest machines.
On PowerShell, running as an administrator, let's run these commands:
cyg-get openssh
cyg-get rsync
Open the Cygwin64 Terminal. You should now be in your Cygwin home folder, which should look like C:\tools\cygwin\home\[YOUR_USER].
Make sure you have git installed. If you don't just choco install git -y. Now, clone rethyinkdb-vagrant:
git clone https://github.com/gearz-lab/rethinkdb-vagrant.git
Now you should have a directory like this: C:\tools\cygwin\home\[YOUR_USER]\rethinkdb-vagrant.
From inside the Cygwin64 Terminal home directory (described in the last step), type cd rethinkdb-vagrant, now, any Vagrant commands will target cd rethinkdb-vagrant.
- To setup and boot the machine:
vagrant up(After this, RethinkDB is available, see next step). - To access the machine's terminal:
vagrant ssh. - To destroy the machine (every RethinkDB data will be lost):
vagrant destroy. - To suspend the machine:
vagrant suspend. - To resume a suspended machine:
vagrant resume.
Make sure you have vagrant up from the last step. Now:
- For accessing the web administration tool: http://localhost:8080.
- For accessing RethinkDB from a client app, the port is 28015.