Mac OS Trellis Setup with Lima instead of Vagrant

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Wordpress vet old dawg learning some new tricks here with the roots.io / bedrock

I want to build out my new projects in a much better way hence I find myself here and looking to setup Trellis on MacOS for my new Dev environment

I am stuck because I get this error –

└─(12:33:13)──> trellis up --debug
Starting galaxy role install process

  • composer (1.9.2) is already installed, skipping.
  • ntp (2.5.0) is already installed, skipping.
  • logrotate (v0.0.5) is already installed, skipping.
  • swapfile (v2.0.38) is already installed, skipping.
  • mailpit (v1.0.0) is already installed, skipping.

Running command => vagrant up --debug
exec: “vagrant”: executable file not found in $PATH

I did install lima prior and thus skipped the Vagrant steps.

What I think I should do is point vagrant cmds to lima’s location but I don’t know if that is the correct way forward here

Thank you for your help here

  • bb
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You need to use trellis vm start instead of trellis up
You will also need to set the port in hosts/development :
Use limactl ls to display the port, then add it e.g.
ansible_host=127.0.0.1 ansible_port=49967 ansible_connection=ssh ansible_user=...

The other vm commands can be found here

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Ok this is helpful thank you hypotune

I think what I have done here now is that I bypassed the ansible prequesite

because I don’t see it here
└─(21:50:57)──> whereis ansible ──(Sun,Jan12)─┘
ansible:

but I can install with brew it looks like

└─(21:51:18)──> brew search ansible ──(Sun,Jan12)─┘
==> Formulae
ansible ansible-cmdb ansible-language-server ansible@10 ansible@9
ansible-builder ansible-creator ansible-lint ansible@8

==> Casks
ansible-dk

I’m just not sure which one to choose and then I am also needing to learn more about ansible once I know which cask is best for my use so off to that now from here

Thank you again for the help

  • bb
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found this link which I think should clear up some of these clouds for me

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You don’t need to worry about installing Ansible

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thanks Ben I think I understand now it’s already going to be included within the lima VM that I create and I modify the files there

A lot of new stuff here for me so I do appreciate the help

Backtracking a bit now on Python - I did install it with homebrew and I have 3.13 installed

What I am unsure of now from reading this page - Python and Trellis | Trellis Docs | Roots

do I now what to remove python with HomeBrew?

HB doesnt seem to like that because it’s already now using python 3.13 in some places –

└─(10:43:00)──> brew uninstall python@3.13 Error: Refusing to uninstall /opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.13/3.13.1
because it is required by glib, graphicsmagick, libheif and shared-mime-info, which are currently installed.
You can override this and force removal with:
brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies python@3.13

so I could do that… but then I am unsure on 2 things…

how to make sure trellis is using python the way it wants to AND then be able to repair these dependencies with homebrew?

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I’m not sure you need to do anything?

What’s happening when you run trellis vm start from a freshly created Trellis project with trellis new? It should provision the development VM

If not, share the output on here. Please start formatting your output in fenced backticks.

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right I may not I just wasn’t sure after reading that link

I will do better on the formatting sry

and then show you what I see there on a fresh project

  • bb
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so I did get almost everything cleared up here

Your Trellis VM is ready to use!

  • Composer and WP-CLI commands need to be run on the virtual machine for any post-provision modifications.

  • You can SSH into the machine with ‘trellis vm shell’

  • Then navigate to your WordPress sites at ‘/srv/www’

the past few days left me with more reading and backtracking to determine my path fwd here an except from my notes -

Goal from here is to properly build with composer / git private repo a small wp site in Bedrock

Include some of the things we will need on the next real project

Then create DigitalOcean Trellis staging / production Server provision it and push site to staging > production

To figure out to navigate that process on a simple site

Then will build out next (yet to be determined project) with same methods

thank you again Ben and Hypotune for your help here

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