Then, in the Virtual Machine Library (accessed by hitting shift+⌘+L), right-click on your VM and click Settings. Step 1: Add an additional network adapterįirst, shutdown your virtual machine. The instructions below show how to add a second NIC to your VMware Fusion guest, configure it to use a static IP address, and configure your Mac to resolve all development hostnames that match a particular pattern (e.g., “.dev”) to that IP address. Ideally, they should always be found at the same IP address and hostname(s), so that you can focus on your work and not on your development environment. Once services are running on the Linux guest, you’ll need an easy way to communicate with them from your Mac. rather than trying to run something like NGINX on your Mac. To eliminate any bugs caused by heterogenous hosting environments, you make sure your dev environment is as close to production as possible this means using the same operating system, kernel, packages, etc.

For example, if you’re a developer working on the client dashboard, you’ll typically clone the appropriate repositories, make code changes, and then review them live in your browser before submitting pull requests. At CloudFlare, like many other technology companies, we host production services on Linux but develop and test on our Macs.

While the above configuration works just fine for accessing the Internet or consuming services on the LAN, it is not ideal - or even practical - for hosting services or serving (development) websites.

Default NIC configuration on VMware Fusion guest (Linux)

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