With a lot of iterations and feedback from “Uncle Charlie”, we’ve got things in my Git repo and with Vagrant in a pretty good state. I’m confident that if our product manager can do this, anyone can! Give it a try yourself and let me know what you think.
Step 1: Install Virtualbox (https://www.virtualbox.org/)
Step 2: Install Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/)
Step 3: Download / clone my Git repo here. Unzip if you downloaded the zip file.
Step 4: Download Smart Cloud Analytics for Applications open beta milestone driver #2 from here and place in the shared/box1-files directory.
Step 5: From the /box1 directory, issue the ‘vagrant up’ command.
Review the blog post here from the “Configured Patterns” section for a guided demo. You’ll end up with something like this deployment pattern.
To install and run the multi box scenario add the additional step:
Step 6: From the /box2 directory, issue the ‘vagrant up’ command.
Review the blog post here from the “Launch Websphere Liberty Sample Application” section for a guided demo. You’ll end up with something like this deployment pattern.