Vagrant

Vagrant instances for local development and testing.

• Vagrant stacks in base create new base boxes from scratch.
• Vagrant stacks in release download 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:

• fullstack is a production-like configuration running all the services on a single server. https://github.com/edx/configuration/wiki/edX-Production-Stack
• devstack is 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-Stack
• test_role (under base directory) is not used for creating test edx instances. Instead, it is used for testing the configuration scripts themselves.