Boxen-puppetconf

As a rapidly growing company, GitHub's faced some challenges in how to make sure that everyone can get up and running on projects or continue to work on one of the dozens of existing projects if they've never set it up before. What a nightmare! That's what prompted @jbarnette and @wfarr to develop Boxen. Boxen aims to solve all the problems that used to plague on-boarding GitHubbers onto projects with a lot of automation and a case of the "It Just Works". This presentation talks about the history of Boxen, how it works, and some of the lessons learned along the way.

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1. Setup the
2. managing an army of laptops ...with puppet
3. hi, my name is will farrington
4. but you might know me as @wfarr  
5. i work at a “little-known startup” called github
6. i have “the best job in the world” at github
7. I work on System operations System operations internal apps the setup
8. love ops? come work with us puppet, erlang, ruby, shell, c and all the graphs you can shake a stick at
9. why
11. oh man, this new macbook pro is sweet! let me run a bunch of stuff by hand so I can get some work done in about 6 to 8 hours, maybe. - some folks
13. oh man, this new macbook pro is sweet! let me run a bunch of stuff by hand so I can get some work done in about 6 to 8 hours, maybe. - a bunch of crazy folks
14. i thought we cared about stuff
16. testing
17. repeatability
18. Automation
19. they matter for our software
20. they matter for our servers
21. but not for our laptops
22. ಠ_ಠ
26. what
27. Setup the
28. Setup the
29. boxen
30. a living, breathing software project that tests and automates every little bit of your machine with love
31. @jbarnette
32. chrome, colloquy, dropbox, elasticsearch, emacs, erlang, git, homebrew, hub, iterm2, java, macvim, memcache, mongodb, mysql, nginx, nodejs, nvm, 1passwd, personalization, postgresql, projects, python, qt, rbenv, rdio, redis, ruby, solr, sparrow, textmate, virtualbox, viscosity, wget, xcode, xquartz, zeromq, zsh, and more daily.
34. in
36. hours of frustration getting github.com and other projects even working locally
38. reality
42. Text
45. The Command Line Interface
46. » boxen --projects * github (as in .com)
47. github » script/bootstrap github » script/server github » open github.dev # SHIPPING!
48. » boxen slumlord # welcome to boomtown
49. » boxen --stealth # YOLO mode
50. » boxen --profile # Spock mode
52. boxen is a stdlib for puppet
53.  boxen is a stdlib for puppet
54. class github::projects::octostatus { require redis ... }
55. class github::projects::octostatus { ... $dir = "${github::config::srcdir}/ octostatus" ... }
56. class github::projects::octostatus { ... git::repo { $dir: source => 'github/octostatus' } ... }
57. class github::projects::octostatus { ... ruby::local { $dir: version => '1.9.3-p194', require => Git::Repo[$dir] } }
59. I like doing things my way
60. I like doing things my way
61. class github::people::hubot { include github::projects::all }
62. class github::people::keavy { include gitx include onepassword include sizeup include sparrow include textmate }
63. class github::people::yossef { package { 'Alfred': provider => 'appdmg', source => $alfred_dmg_url; } }
64. class github::people::yossef { package { 'Mailplane': provider => 'compressed_app', source => 'http://somewhere/app.zip' } }
65. class github::people::wfarr { git::config::global { 'alias.st': value => 'status'; 'alias.ci': value => 'commit'; } }
66. class github::people::wfarr { file { '/Users/wfarr/.gitignore': ensure => present, content => '.DS_STORE' } }
67. class github::people::wfarr { package { 'emacs': } git::repo { '/Users/wfarr/.emacs.d': source => 'wfarr/.emacs.d', submodules => true } }
68. class github::people::wfarr { package { 'emacs': } git::repo { '/Users/wfarr/.emacs.d': source => 'wfarr/.emacs.d', submodules => true } }
69. class github::people::wfarr { osx_defaults { 'troll protection': ensure => present, domain => 'com.apple.screensaver', key => 'askForPassword', value => 1, user => 'wfarr' } }
70. lessons
71. puppeteer supportocat
72. people will do crazy things
73. it is your job to fix it if it breaks
74. no matter what it is your job to fix it if it breaks
75. developers and designers are really good at breaking things
76. people will not report “minor” problems
77. people will barely report “major” problems
79. not having to report bugs makes people happy
80. getting regular bug reports makes us happy
81. users getting github notifications that the bug they hit and never even reported is already fixed
83. reduce potential for bugs by vendoring everything
86. » du -sh /opt/boxen 4.1G /opt/boxen
87. there’s
89. =(
90. » env | grep BOXEN_ \ | wc -l 24
91. » env | grep \ BOXEN_REDIS_PORT BOXEN_REDIS_PORT=16379
92. » env | grep \ BOXEN_MYSQL_PORT BOXEN_MYSQL_PORT=13306
94. people will never remember to update regularly
95. tell people when they should update
97. => Installing qt...
100. => Fetching snapshot... => Installing qt...
101. => Fetching snapshot... => Installing ruby-1.9.3...
102. => Fetching snapshot... => Installing node-0.6.8...
103. puppet defined types are slow
104. start with puppet-defined types
105. then rewrite in ruby
106. we don't have the ability to mandate environments
107. we don't want to mandate environments
108. we have to provide something dramatically better than just doing it yourself
109. we have to provide something dramatically EASIER than just doing it yourself
111. prim donn
112. boxen is not a tool for administration
113. boxen does not want to be a tool for administration
114. boxen is a tool for people who want to get stuff done, sanely
115. boxen has goals
116. user-extensible
117. framework
118. stable
119. easy to use
120. documented to kingdom come
121. not a maintenance nightmare
122. zomg GIMME
123. you don’t get it just yet =(
124. we are working hard to open source it
125. the goal was to OSS today
126. but some mes things come up
133. really
134. private “early access” for “friends and family” next next week
135. more testers == more fixes == everyone gets it sooner
136. how much is ge ng opened up exactly?
137. boxen-core boxen-web boxen-mac
138. TONS of providers, types, and more to contribute BACK to puppet proper
139. oh, and it runs on Puppet 3.0
140. boxen
141. questions
143. thanks
144. speakerdeck.com/u/ wfarr/p/boxen
145. drinkup @ Zekes 8:30pm