Avoid Deployment Surprises and Frustation with Vagrant and Ansible

We’ve all had that “works on my machine” moment. We coded and coded, got it working the way we want, went to deploy and . . . . errors. This talk will help WP developers learn how to use Vagrant and Ansible to quickly provision a consistent, isolated development environment that moves seamlessly to production and makes deployment a pain-free and surprise-free experience.

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1. Avoid Deployment
   Surprises and
   Frustration with
   Vagrant
   Joel Clermont
   @jclermont
   

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2. Goals
   

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3. Goals
   • What is Vagrant?
   

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4. Goals
   • What is Vagrant?
   
   • Why might I want to use it?
   

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5. Goals
   • What is Vagrant?
   
   • Why might I want to use it?
   
   • How does it work?
   

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6. PROBLEM
   Wasting time setting up or
   maintaining a local dev
   environment
   

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7. PROBLEM
   “Works on my machine!”
   

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8. Solution
   

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9. Uses virtual machines
   portable, isolated, project-specific
   

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10. FREE
    

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11. DEMO
    

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17. Pick a “box”
    

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18. Side note: disk space
    

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19. vagrant  init
    

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20. vagrant  up
    

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21. vagrant  ssh
    

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22. Oh no, do I have to use vim or
    emacs?
    

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23. vagrant  suspend
    vagrant  halt
    

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24. vagrant  destroy
    

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25. How do I configure my
    VM?
    

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26. References
    • Vagrant http://www.vagrantup.com
    
    • https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV
    
    • Vagrant cheat sheet: http://www.erikaheidi.com/blog/
    quick-user-guide-for-vagrant
    

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27. Ansible
    Streamlined shell scripts
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28. playbook.yml
    

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29. init.yml
    

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30. References
    • Ansible http://docs.ansible.com
    
    • Ansible template https://github.com/joelclermont/
    vagrant-ansible-template
    
    • Brad’s HHVM http://webdevstudios.com/2014/07/17/
    setting-up-wordpress-nginx-hhvm-for-the-fastest-
    possible-load-times/
    
    • Vagrant HHVM https://github.com/keichan34/wp-
    nginx-hhvm-mariadb
    

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31. Next Steps
    https://leanpub.com/vagrantcookbook
    

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32. Next Steps
    August 22
    http://daycamp4developers.com
    

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33. Questions?
    

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34. Thank you!
    
    !
    joelclermont.com
    
    @jclermont
    

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