Development Environment Playbook(s)

A collection of Ansible playbooks to setup my personal dev environment.

Inspired by Jeff Geerling's Mac Development Ansible Playbook.

Setting up a VirtualBox VM

My usual way of setting up a VirtualBox VM is through ssh from the host machine.

Enable SSH port forwarding for a VM

Modify the network settings of the VM:

• navigate through Settings -> Networks -> Advanced -> Port forwarding
• In the Port forwarding rules table, add a row with:
  • Name: SSH (or any name would do)
  • Protocol: TCP
  • Host Port: I typically go with 43219 but can go with something else.
  • Guest Port: 22

Add the following to ~/.ssh/config on the host machine: