FAQs

This page provides the frequently asked questions (FAQs) about teracy-dev.

Why teracy-dev? Why not just Docker?

Docker is great to work with, it solves a lot of problems on development, distribution, and production deployment. It works great on Linux, but it’s very challenging to make it work universal and consistent on Mac and Windows. There are lots of efforts to solve this problem, from Docker themselves and from Docker community, too. However, we haven’t achieved that stage yet (until teracy-dev). teracy-dev is a universal Productive Development Platform With Docker on macOS, Linux and Windows. With teracy-dev, anyone from any OS platforms could collaborate and help each other with no differences in the development environment, and many other reasons why you should use teracy-dev to develop software more easily, see details at http://blog.teracy.com/2016/12/20/teracy-dev-the-only-truly-universal-productive-development-platform-with-docker-on-macos-linux-and-windows/.

How do I know which version of teracy-dev that I’m using?

Currently, to know the version of teracy-dev which you are using, you need to follow the steps: First, you need to git branch to know the current branch, then git log to know the info about the latest commits. Normally, we have the commits about release the new version, for example, “Merge pull request #313 from hoatle/tasks/#312-release-v0.5.0-b3”.

We’ll provide a simpler way soon at https://github.com/teracyhq/dev/issues/366.

After vaggrant ssh, why cannot I run the grunt or npm command in the VM?

The grunt or npm command is not used in the teracy-dev latest version anymore. Instead, docker and docker-compose is installed by default and you should use these two.

What should I do after updating vagrant_config_override.json to get it applied to the VM?

Make sure to save the vagrant_config_override.json file, and you can run $ vagrant provision , usually this should work. If not, run $ vagrant reload --provision.

What should I do when $ vagrant up gets stuck at this step?

default: /tmp/vagrant-chef/7cb2926f81b5c74a4ca3dd163f9d9ffd/roles => /Users/hoatle/teracy-dev/workspace/teracy-dev/roles
default: /tmp/vagrant-chef/3071687433aa992e850e416aafea8f25/nodes => /Users/hoatle/teracy-dev/workspace/teracy-dev/nodes
default: /tmp/vagrant-chef/bbfefdc57119d7552b06b24069242f8a/data_bags => /Users/hoatle/teracy-dev/workspace/teracy-dev/data_bags
default: /tmp/vagrant-chef/9b5518c8fee080ca55f1c57179068e17/cookbooks => /Users/hoatle/teracy-dev/workspace/teracy-dev/vendor-cookbooks
default: /tmp/vagrant-chef/87b97d785383812081b2ec7e56be857d/cookbooks => /Users/hoatle/teracy-dev/workspace/teracy-dev/main-cookbooks
==> default: Running provisioner: chef_solo...
default: Installing Chef (latest)...

Then stop it, $ vagrant ssh to update this http://askubuntu.com/questions/620317/apt-get-update-stuck-connecting-to-security-ubuntu-com, then $ vagrant reload --provision again.

/etc/hosts is not properly updated when I got errors, after $ vagrant destroy and $ vagrant up. I end up having multiple same entries that the wrong one is on the top of the file. This leads to wrong DNS to point to the right VM’s IP address. What should I do?

Follow the steps below:

  1. check VM’s ip: $ vagrant up
  2. $ vagrant hostmanger to make sure /etc/hosts is updated.
  3. $ ping <the_configured_domain> to see if it pings the right VM IP from step 1.
  4. If it’s not right, open /etc/hosts to check and remove wrong entries.
  5. Come back to Step 3 to verify.

What should I do when the teracy-dev version is changed?

You should run the command vagrant destroy, then vagrant up.

What should I do when changing provisioner (Chef, Bash…)?

You should run the command $ vagrant reload --provision.

What should I do when meeting other errors, and the problems cannot be solved with vagrant reload or vagrant reload --provision?

You should run the command vagrant destroy, then $ vagrant up.