Boxen @ PhillyDevOps Lighting Talks

Gave a 10 minute lighting talk on applying automation and devops principals to your Mac setup.

Transcript

1. Boxen Adam Ochonicki @fromonesrc
2. Artisinally hand-crafted workstations are the last refuge of the neckbeard
3. Apply automation and DevOps principals to your Mac OS X setup
4. I work at Articulate Boxen helps our teams work better We contribute back to Boxen
5. Built by GitHub, nurtured by the community 250 public modules, 15 core maintainers
6. But what does it even do?
7. •Runs in the shell •Built on Puppet •Automates OS X setup •Helps your team work better •Configures All The Things! ######## ####### ## ## ######## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #### ## ######## ## ## ### ###### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #### ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ### ######## ####### ## ## ######## ## ##
8. boxen-web
9. •New hires ship code on day one •Lovingly enforce Full Disk Encryption •Automate installation of common apps •Get dev configs in sync What does it all mean?
10. •Lots of Ruby, Bash, and Puppet •puppet-librarian manages module deps github 'onepassword', '1.0.2' •Personal manifest for personal configuration •Project manifest for project configuration Inside Boxen
11. Personal manifest class people::fromonesrc { include alfred include caffeine include omnifocus include onepassword include textexpander include textmate include textual include tmux include vagrant include vlc include vmware_fusion include zsh $dotfiles = "/Users/${::luser}/.dotfiles" repository { $dotfiles: ensure => present, source => "fromonesrc/dotfiles" } } class projects::giddyup { include elasticsearch include mongodb include phantomjs include qt boxen::project { "giddyup": source => "articulate/giddyup", ruby => "2.0.0-p247", postgresql => true } } Project manifest
12. •Failed runs log issues to team boxen repo •Who, When, Machine, OS, Shell, Git Ref, Trace •Auto-closes issues on next successful run boxen --debug boxen --stealth Debugging tho?
13. •Currently works with Mac OS 10.8+ •Linux support on the way •Installs its own Homebrew and rbenv •Runs services on non-standard ports Caveats and whatnot
14. •Works with GitHub 2FA using tokens •GitHub Enterprise support by community •YMMV on ‘old’ hardware Closing Boxen
15. •I really like Chef, but Puppet’s not so bad •Boxen is a great starting point •It doesn’t matter what you use •Just use something Closing Boxen
16. #boxen on irc.freenode.net boxen.github.com @fromonesrc
17. We’re hiring a Web Ops Engineer articulate.com/careers @fromonesrc (soon!)