PuPHPet
PuPHPet - A simple GUI to set up virtual machines for PHP development
What?
PuPHPet is a web application that allows you to easily and quickly generate custom
Vagrant and Puppet controlled virtual machines.
If you're unfamiliar with either Vagrant or Puppet, I wrote a blog titled
"Make $ vagrant up yours".
How?
PHP drives the frontend, using the "Symfony2 framework". Choices are set into a yaml file that
configures the main Puppet manifest with your custom settings.
Why?
I started using Vagrant and Puppet when I wanted a simple PHP 5.4 VM to do my development on. I could find nothing
pre-made that didn't come with a bunch of cruft I did not want so I decided to create a tool that would ease this
task for other developers who may not want to learn Puppet's DSL to get a VM up and running so they can develop
in their language of choice.
Who?
Originally developed by Juan Treminio, PuPHPet has now had 29 contributors (as of 12/15/13),
with the talented Frank Stelzer heavily contributing. Also making significant
contributions is Michaël Perrin.
Sometime in mid August 2013, work on v2 was begun to attempt to solve problems encountered with v1: difficult to
add new features, too much PHP logic controlling Puppet logic, difficult to change an existing manifest.
Goals
The main goal of PuPHPet is to eventually replace tools such as XAMPP, WAMPP, MAMPP and other all-in-one servers that
create development environments on your main operating system.
Eventually PuPHPet will be good enough to help create production-ready servers!
Requirements
To run PuPHPet-generated manifests, you'll need to install Vagrant version 1.8.6 or
greater. Vagrant will run on Windows, OS X and Linux.
Contribution
If you have a patch, or stumbled upon an issue with PuPHPet core, you can contribute this back to the code. Please read our contributor guidelines for more information how you can do this.
License
PuPHPet is licensed under the MIT license all third-party Puppet
Modules are licensed under Apache License v2.0.
Clearmin Design licensed under GPLv3 with
an exemption provided for PuPHPet.