To replicate a real cluster environment as closely as possible, we use Vagrant to launch a complete Aurora cluster in a virtual machine.
You can start a local cluster by running:
vagrant up
Once started, several services should be running:
You can SSH into the machine with vagrant ssh
and execute aurora client commands using the
aurora
command. A pre-installed clusters.json
file refers to your local cluster as
devcluster
, which you will use in client commands.
Once you are finished with your local cluster, or if you would otherwise like to start from scratch,
you can use the command vagrant destroy
to turn off and delete the virtual file system.
If you are changing Aurora code and would like to rebuild a component, you can use the aurorabuild
command on your vagrant machine to build and restart a component. This is considerably faster than
destroying and rebuilding your VM.
aurorabuild
accepts a list of components to build and update. You may invoke the command with
no arguments to get a list of supported components.
vagrant ssh -c 'aurorabuild client'
Most of the vagrant related problems can be fixed by the following steps:
* Destroying the vagrant environment with vagrant destroy
* Killing any orphaned VMs (see AURORA-499) with virtualbox
UI or VBoxManage
command line tool
* Cleaning the repository of build artifacts and other intermediate output with git clean -fdx
* Bringing up the vagrant environment with vagrant up