Getting Started

Setting up a virtual environment

Use our local website and go to the 'Config Setup' page. From there, you can click 'Add Machine' in order to add a virtual machine to the environment. When you are done adding virtual machines, click 'Download'. BrightSun will generate the scripts and coniguration files that need to be run in order to create the virtual environment and package them in a .zip file.

What is in the downloaded files

ProjectBrightSun generates Packer configuration files, a Vagrantfile, and script files to build the environments. Each OS type gets one Packer configuration file: for example, if you defined three Ubuntu 16.04 machines and one Windows 7 machine, you would see two Packer files. The Vagrantfile then uses the output of Packer to generate the virtual machines.

In order to build the machines, unzip the files to the "ProjectBrightSun/build" directory. From there, run the script called 'build', either the .sh or .ps1 file depending on your operating system. The virtual machines will be automatically created and added to VirtualBox.

Saving environments for latter

After you have created a virtual environment using the 'Config Setup' page, click 'Export'. Save the downloaded file somewhere. Whenever you want, you can use the 'Import' button and select the downloaded file in order to load the virtual environment back into ProjectBrightSun.