Nebula

A modern system requires access to multitude of development and production environments. Each environment has separate credentials, requirements and providers. Nebula is a virtual machine that creates & manages your development and production environments.

Key features are:

• Secure Secret Access: Secure secrets are stored in LastPass and retrieved via LastPass CLI.
• Otto: Otto is used for creating your dev environment and deploying it in production.
• Nebula creates virtual machines to separate each environment that Otto manages while providing access to your project directories in your own IDE (Integrated Debugging Environment).

Provider Support

• VMWare Fusion

Dependencies

• Vagrant
• VMWare Fusion Pro
• Vagrant license for Fusion
• Git
• LastPass account for storing secrets

Getting Started

Install vagrant plugins and fusion license:

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-vmware-fusion
$ vagrant plugin license vagrant-vmware-fusion license.lic

Run the following commands to setup your virtual machine:

$ cd ~
$ mkdir ~/workspace
$ git clone https://github.com/pepperstack/nebula.git
$ cd nebula
$ vagrant up --provider vmware_fusion

Your virtual machine will be created with the default name of "eskimo" Nebula. Alternatively, you can edit the nebula_name variable in Vagrantfile for creating more nebulae.

Now ssh to your Nebula:

$ vagrant ssh <nebula-name>

You are ready to go through Otto Getting Started for developing and deploying your applications. Refer to What is Otto? for more information.