Vagrantfile for latest magento 2 (version 2.16) and ubuntu (Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS)

I have just upload Vagrantfile for latest magento (2.16) and latest Ubuntu (bento/ubuntu-14.04) to github so that interested readers can install the latest magento for development via Vagrant on their computer:

https://github.com/chen0040/vagrant-magento-2.16

The github repo contains the Vagrantfile and Vagrantfile.config.yml adopted from the "Magento Developer Guide" book but updated based on the trial-and-errors with the latest magento, ubuntu and PHP

The objective is to address several issues with the original Vagrantfile provided by "Magento Developer Guide" so that it is compatible with the latest magento (current version 2.16) and Ubuntu (current version: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS)

Some known issues with the original Vagrantfile provided by "Magento Developer Guide" are:

• The vm.box "ubuntu/vivid64" for vagrant is not longer provided
• The default PHP version (7.1) provided by latest ubuntu (after running apt-get update on bento/ubuntu-14.04) is not compatible with magento 2.16 due to the issues with mcrypt no longer supported in PHP 7.1
• php5.6-mbstring and php5.6-zip are needed for the magento 2.16 to work correctly

Version

The following list the version of the various softwares installed by the Vagrantfile on the ubuntu VM:

• vm.box: bento/ubuntu-14.04
• magento: magento 2 (version: 2.16)
• PHP: 5.6
• MySQL: 5.6

Currently the Vagrantfile is tested to be working on host computer which is Windows 10

Usage

• Install VirtualBox
• Install Vagrant
• Obtain the magento public and private secret keys (Follow this link) and replace the "[magent_public_key]" and "[magento_private_key]" in Vagrantfile.config.yml with the obtained keys
• Obtain a github oauth access key (Follow this link and replace the "[github_oauth]" in Vagrantfile.config.yml with the obtained github oauth token
• Change the "email@change.me" in Vagrantfile.config.yml to your email of choice
• Change the "[magento_host_path]" in Vagrantfile.config.yml to your local path on your host computer on which you want the magento files to be installed
• Run the following command on your host computer:

git clone https://github.com/chen0040/vagrant-magento-2.16.git
cd vagrant-magento-2.16
vagrant up

• Add the line "192.168.10.10 magento.box" to /etc/hosts on your host computer (If you host computer is Windows, then the hosts file is located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts)
• Open your browser and enter "http://magento.box" (To change this to your url of choice, replace it in the Vagrantfile.config.yml)
• To login to the vagrant vm box, run the command "vagrant ssh". If you are using putty, ssh to 192.168.10.10 (username: vagrant, password: vagrant)

Issues and Solutions

If you encounter some of the issues when running Vagrantfile, you can refer to the following:

• Issue: Vagrant was unable to mount VirtualBox shared folders. This is usually because the filesystem "vboxsf" is not available. This filesystem is made available via the VirtualBox Guest Additions and kernel module.

Solution: Run the following command:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest