Vagrant for setting up the datastore server

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It would be very useful to be able to setup the datastore server with vagrant.
That can help in case of a server crash or upgrade.
This would allow us to easily test improvements to how it runs;
such as adding supervisor to keep certain processes running.

frome is not a very complex server, so it should be relatively (compared to publicdb) easy setup.
Some notes on how it was originally setup can be found here: http://docs.hisparc.nl/servers/frome.html

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Requirements

Packages:

• httpd
• mod_wsgi
• Conda
  • Python
  • NumPy
  • PyTables
• git
• supervisor

Mount /databases from trave:/export/hisparc/databases.
Run the writer and hisparc-datastore processes.

[davidfokkema]

Where do we put everything? If we make use of Ansible roles, all servers should be in the same repository. However, Pique is now in the publicdb repository, and there is some sense in that, too. It is now easy to clone the publicdb repository and set up a development server.

So, how to do this DRY?

Background reading on using vagrant and ansible both for production and development (I haven't had time yet to read them completely, but I intend to):
https://www.kalibrr.com/blog/syncing-development-production-environments/
http://future500.nl/articles/2014/05/how-to-use-ansible-for-vagrant-and-production/

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If someone picks this task up; This should be added to the provisioning in the publicdb, which provisions both the public database (pique) and monitoring server (tietar).

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HiSPARC/publicdb#158

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Part of the provisioning and development setup in the publicdb.