Vagrant instances for local development and testing.
- Vagrant stacks in
basecreate new base boxes from scratch. - Vagrant stacks in
releasedownload a base box with most requirements already installed. The instances then update themselves with the latest versions of the application code.
If you are a developer or designer, you should use the release stacks.
There are two versions of the stack:
fullstackis a production-like configuration running all the services on a single server. https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/edX-Production-Stackdevstackis designed for local development. Although it uses the same system requirements as in production, it simplifies certain settings to make development more convenient. https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/edX-Developer-Stacktest_role(underbasedirectory) is not used for creating test edx instances. Instead, it is used for testing the configuration scripts themselves.