Automate your development environment - PTJUG

With Chef and Vagrant.

Checkout the demo video at https://vimeo.com/77776149

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1. automate your dev environment chef + vagrant
2. Me
3. • CTO at Cult of Bits • 10+ years of professional Java development Me
4. What are we going to talk about?
5. What? Stop installing things by hand
6. Why?
7. Why? Because it’s Boring
8. Why? Because you will make mistakes
9. Why? Ultimately, because it’s something that your computer can do better and cheaper.
10. Chef
11. Chef Chef is an automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code. source: http://www.opscode.com/chef/
12. Chef variants
13. Chef variants Chef Server
14. Chef variants Chef Server Use it to manage many computers
15. Chef variants Chef Solo chef-solo is an open source version of the chef-client that allows using cookbooks with nodes without requiring access to a server.
16. (some) Chef concepts
17. Chef concepts Node A node is any physical, virtual, or cloud machine that is configured to be maintained by a chef-client.
18. Chef concepts Role A role is a way to define certain patterns and processes that exist across nodes in an organization as belonging to a single job function.
19. Chef concepts Cookbook A cookbook is the fundamental unit of configuration and policy distribution. Each cookbook defines a scenario, such as everything needed to install and configure MySQL, and then it contains all of the components that are required to support that scenario
20. What else are we going to talk about?
21. What? Get rid of the “it works on my machine” issues
22. Why?
23. Why? Because it’s a waste of time
24. Why? Because it reflects poorly on you
25. Vagrant
26. Vagrant Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes the "works on my machine" excuse a relic of the past. source: http://www.vagrantup.com/
27. Vagrant concepts
28. Vagrant concepts Providers Enable Vagrant to work with different backends: VirtualBox (the default), VMware Fusion (paid), AWS, Rackspace, Digital Ocean, etc…
29. Vagrant concepts Boxes Boxes are the skeleton from which Vagrant machines are constructed. They are portable files which can be used by others on any platform that runs Vagrant to bring up a working environment. ! Boxes are provider specific.
30. Vagrant concepts Vagrantfile The primary function of the Vagrantfile is to describe the type of machine required for a project, and how to configure and provision these machines. ! Commit them to version control.
31. DEMO TIME available at: https://vimeo.com/77776149
32. References
33. The Chef Homepage http://www.opscode.com/chef/ The Vagrant Homepage http://www.vagrantup.com/ A big list of available Vagrant boxes http://www.vagrantbox.es/ References
34. Thank you! @jnelas joao.nelas@gmail.com