Vagrant for Non-Developers

Vagrant helps developers minimize the difference between production and development environments. That's great for developers, but why should the rest of the team care? This talk will discuss several features of Vagrant that will increase consistency and minimize surprises throughout the deployment pipeline. The discussion will be non-technical, focusing on the value for the entire team.

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1. Vagrant for Vagrant for Non-Developers Non-Developers
2. Mike Brown Mike Brown Python Developer Python Developer @m3osu / @ExcellaCo @m3osu / @ExcellaCo
3. Dev Dev ≠ ≠ Production Production
6. Vagrant? Vagrant?
7. "Vagrant provides "Vagrant provides easy to configure, easy to configure, reproducible, and reproducible, and portable work portable work environments" environments"
8. Vagrant helps Vagrant helps developers set up a developers set up a virtual machine virtual machine Translation: Translation:
9. Claim 1: Easy To Configure Claim 1: Easy To Configure Vagrant::Config.run do |cfg| cfg.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty32" cfg.vm.forward_port 80, 8080 cfg.vm.share_folder "test", "/home/vagrant/test" cfg.vm.provision :shell, :path => "install.sh" end
10. Vagrant Commands Vagrant Commands $ vagrant up $ vagrant ssh $ vagrant halt $ vagrant destroy
11. Claim 2: Reproducible Claim 2: Reproducible Puppet Puppet Ansible Ansible Chef Chef Docker Docker Shell Shell
13. Configure dev the Configure dev the same way you same way you configure prod configure prod
14. "But our production "But our production environment has environment has several servers..." several servers..."
15. Claim 3: Portable Claim 3: Portable Configurations can be shared! Configurations can be shared!
17. This team is not worried about This team is not worried about their development environments their development environments
19. Dev ≈ Production Dev ≈ Production
20. Dev ≈ Production Dev ≈ Production For the whole team For the whole team