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Drupal 8 with Docker CE and Docksal on MacOSX
Kickoff a Drupal 8 development environment
Drupal 8 evolves quickly, and it's easy to get lost amongst the several documentations that have been written since the beta releases, Drush and PHP version needs upgrade. Some things that I have learned.
Option 1 : No VM setup on Mac OSX, via Homebrew
Okay, VM's are easier to maintain solutions, but in some situations you just don't have enough RAM for having Virtualbox running all the time.
VLAD (Vagrant LAMP Ansible Drupal)
After trying the latest dev release of VDD (needed to run Drupal 8, because at the time of writing this, the stable release is stucked to PHP 5.3), I decided to give a try to VLAD, another Vagrant alike solution.
Main reasons : git and drush are not already installed on th VDD dev, and sometimes I got stucked on the vagrant provisioning.
First reaction after installing VLAD : Woooooow !
Here are some of the sweet goodies that awaits you :
Access a Vagrant virtual host with xip.io
This tip is for people that would access a Vagrant dev website from another VM (let's say to test another version of Internet Explorer via e.g. https://github.com/xdissent/ievms) or via another device than the host environment (smartphone, tablet, ...).
Vagrant allows you to quickly deploy dev environments on a Virtualbox VM.
xip.io will let you access your dev website from other devices (already tried to patch /etc/hosts on an iPad?)
Vagrant development environment setup with VDD on MacOSX
After spending some time configuring Yosemite to end up in a poor result (slow server, MySQL crashing repeatedly), I decided have a look at this Vagrant stuff.
I was astonished how easy it was to get up and running with it.