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
2. Goals
3. Goals • What is Vagrant?
4. Goals • What is Vagrant? • Why might I want to use it?
5. Goals • What is Vagrant? • Why might I want to use it? • How does it work?
6. PROBLEM Wasting time setting up or maintaining a local dev environment
7. PROBLEM “Works on my machine!”
8. Solution
9. Uses virtual machines portable, isolated, project-specific
10. FREE
11. DEMO
17. Pick a “box”
18. Side note: disk space
19. vagrant  init
20. vagrant  up
21. vagrant  ssh
22. Oh no, do I have to use vim or emacs?
23. vagrant  suspend
    vagrant  halt
24. vagrant  destroy
25. How do I configure my VM?
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
27. Ansible Streamlined shell scripts 27
28. playbook.yml
29. init.yml
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
31. Next Steps https://leanpub.com/vagrantcookbook
32. Next Steps August 22 http://daycamp4developers.com
33. Questions?
34. Thank you! ! joelclermont.com @jclermont