diff --git a/frontend/Vagrantfile b/frontend/Vagrantfile
index c2462c8..b67c7fa 100644
--- a/frontend/Vagrantfile
+++ b/frontend/Vagrantfile
@@ -2,18 +2,33 @@
   # base image
   config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"
 
-  # setup a private network to the host machine
-  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.46.100"
-
   # share the folder
   config.vm.synced_folder "../", "/home/vagrant/service-profile"
   config.vm.synced_folder "../../xos", "/home/vagrant/xos", create: true
-  config.vm.synced_folder "../../xos-services", "/home/vagrant/xos-services", create: true
+  config.vm.synced_folder "../../xos_services", "/home/vagrant/xos_services", create: true
+  config.vm.synced_folder "../../xos_libraries", "/home/vagrant/xos_libraries", create: true
   config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", disabled: true
 
-  # increase RAM
-  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
-      vb.customize ['modifyvm', :id,'--memory', '4096']
+  # set the frontend vm
+  config.vm.define "frontend" do |d|
+    d.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 9999, host: 9999
+    d.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 6379, host: 6379
+    d.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.46.100"
+    d.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
+       vb.memory = "2048"
+    end
   end
 
+  config.vm.provision "shell", privileged: false, inline: <<-SHELL
+    sudo apt-get update
+    sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates git
+    sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://p80.pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 --recv-keys 58118E89F3A912897C070ADBF76221572C52609D
+    echo deb https://apt.dockerproject.org/repo ubuntu-trusty main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
+    sudo apt-get update
+    sudo apt-get install -y git docker-engine python-pip
+    sudo pip install docker-compose
+    sudo groupadd docker
+    sudo usermod -aG docker vagrant
+  SHELL
+
  end
diff --git a/frontend/docker-compose-bootstrap.yml b/frontend/docker-compose-bootstrap.yml
index a4cc096..a2aadd2 100644
--- a/frontend/docker-compose-bootstrap.yml
+++ b/frontend/docker-compose-bootstrap.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
     expose:
         - "5432"
 
+xos_redis:
+    image: redis
+    ports:
+        - "6379:6379"
+
 xos_bootstrap_ui:
     image: xosproject/xos
     # command: sleep 86400
@@ -13,6 +18,7 @@
         - "9998:9998"
     links:
         - xos_db
+        - xos_redis:redis
     volumes:
       - ../common/xos_common_config:/opt/xos/xos_configuration/xos_common_config
       - ../cord-pod/files/xos_vtn_config:/opt/xos/xos_configuration/xos_vtn_config:ro