The ideal development image

To take full advantage of the Proxmox development servers we decided to make a fresh development image with all settings preset, so when you start a project, you only have to load a fresh image into a Virtual Private Server and go off developing great things.

In this post we would like to share with you the default settings and configuration of the setup:

• Ubuntu server 12.04 (minimalistic install)
• MySQL
• DVCS: Mercurial and Git
• PHP 5.4
• Apache 2
• Curl
• PhpMyAdmin
• Python 2.7
• Htop
• Btsync
• Node Version Manager

Of course the standard settings for the firewall, logwatch user management and ssh are also part of the image.

Some choices may seem a bit odd, but some things are nice to have without the extra apt-get hassle. However: in a production environment the list would be very different indeed.