Puphpet - PHP Vagrant development images made easy

September 8, 2015 One minute read

Devops • PHP

Update 2016/07/06: You should probably not be using Vagrant (and Puphpet) anymore now that we live in the wonderful world of Docker containers. I will leave this blog post online for now, but take this information as ‘extremely outdated’.

Puphpet is, beside a horrible word to type, a great tool to create specific Vagrant images that contain a very fine-tuned development stack for PHP development.

The website generates puppet scripts that will provision a Vagrant image with your specific configuration. Using the online configuration tool you have huge selection of things to include in your image:

Ubuntu or CentOS base images
apache or nginx webservers
php versions from early 5 version to php 7 releases candidates and even [HHVM](https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/
MySQL or MariaDB
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Reddis
SQLite
Mailcatcher
Beanstalkd
RabbitMQ
Elasticsearch
Apache Solr (4.x and 5. versions)

Even if you know nothing of server setups this is a great tool to build a production-like environment to develop on. It’s easy to commit these config files in your git repository and let co-workers use them without having to configure one single thing about it.

If you haven’t used Vagrant yet, you are living in the past and should really catch up