If you want to create a development environment to mimic the WordPress VIP hosting platform, the VIP team has you covered. VIP Quickstart is a new tool, available on Github, that helps you set up everything easily.
According to the announcement post, here are the technical bits:
VIP Quickstart is a mix of Vagrant, Puppet, Bash scripts, and some PHP code that will help you quickstart your WordPress.com VIP development. The setup installs a base Ubuntu 12.04 box running PHP, Nginx, and MySQL. The WordPress installation will be WordPress multisite from the latest trunk build. It also includes the WordPress Developer plugin along with all the recommended VIP plugins and the VIP Shared Plugins repository. Finally, there are some WordPress.com customizations and WP-CLI.
You will need VirtualBox, Vagrant, Git, and Subversion ready to go on your machine.
This seems like a nice time saver, both for those that work frequently on VIP projects, and those that are simply curious or want to compare it to their own setups.
I’m working on an email script to accompany this, simulating the full horror of WordPress VIP bills.
This post contains even less information than their instruction pages do, very unhelpful.
I seem to be unable to find any proper instructions on how to actually install this damn thing.
James, I was more noting that it existed, not giving a tutorial on how to use it. I wrote this right when it launched. There are a number of Vagrant tutorials out there though. Or if those don’t help you, you should write it up when you get it going – I’m sure it will help others!
Im a beginner in IT and that stuff is easy to install.