Clean development environment for Drupal with Vagrant and Puppet

What? Why? and How? you can setup a clean development environment for Drupal based on Vagrant and Puppet.

Vagrant description, Puppet manifests, symlinks and LAMP setup with Puppet.

My talk from the Drupal Meetup Cebu on June 2013.

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1. Clean development environment for Drupal with Vagrant & Puppet Drupal Meetup Cebu, Philippines. 26/06/13. Luc Bezier | luc@webizat.com
2. Who? - Luc Bézier - Freelance web developer from France,
3. What? Virtual machine Vagrant Puppet Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb } Clean development environment
4. Why? - (M/W/L)amp stack to install on top of your computer`s OS - Creates a high dependency between your system and you development environment - You development environment will never be like production. Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb
5. Puppet - Configuration management tool - Apply a manifest (.pp) - Contrib modules or do a custom module ... sounds familiar - Puppet command available in your VM Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb
6. Vagrant - On top of Virtual Box - Configuration using a Vagrantfile - Uses a shared folder between your computer and your VM Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb
7. Vagrant -  vagrant up -  vagrant halt -  vagrant ssh … and sometimes vagrant destroy Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb The 3 main commands you will use:
8. How to? - Install VirtualBox & Vagrant - Add a box :
9. Vagrantfile - Tell vagrant about your box config.vm.box - Your network configuration & share folder config.vm.network config.vm.share_folder - I want to use puppet! config.vm.provision :puppet Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb
10. Puppet apache - Using the contrib module from puppetlabs Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb class { 'apache': default_mods => true, mpm_module => 'prefork', } include apache::mod::php apache::vhost { 'vagrant.local': port => '80', docroot => '/var/www/drupal-project', } - Module: github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apache
11. Puppet symlink - Symlink in your “www” directory to target your shared folder, where your drupal is. Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb file { '/var/www/drupal-project': ensure => 'link', target => '/vagrant/drupal-project', }
12. Puppet mysql - Using the contrib module from puppetlabs Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb class { 'mysql::server': config_hash => { 'root_password' => 'root' } } mysql::db { 'drupal’: user => 'drupal', password => 'drupal', host => 'localhost', grant => ['all'], } -  Change the passwords ;) -  Module: github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-mysql
13. Puppet php - Using a very simple custom module Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb package { "php5”: ensure => present, } package { "drush”: ensure => present, } } Repeat this code for every php extension you need, php5-mysql, php5-gd ... - Drush is included in the php packages for lucid. Full version of the code: github.com/Luukyb/drupal-puppet
14. Do try this at home Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb Give a try to my simple puppet-drupal project: github.com/Luukyb/drupal-puppet Try the drupal project for vagrant: drupal.org/project/vagrant Project Oscar (by @manarth): github.com/manarth/oscar
15. Thanks! Drupal, Vagrant & Puppet luc@webizat.com | @Luukyb Any questions ? Special thanks to Promet Source (@prometsource) & Jonathan Himbing (@nathanjo) for organizing the Drupal meetup Cebu, Philippines.