Vagrant and Puppet Primer - NWDUG Sep 2013

Presented at nwdug in Manchester September 2013 - http://mikebell.io

Transcript

1. VAGRANT DEVELOPMENT AND PUPPET MANAGEMENT USING VAGRANTS TO DO THE WORK AND PUPPET TO CONTROL THINGS Created by / Mike Bell @mikebell_
2. WHO? Mike Bell Twitter - Drupal.org - Where - CTI Digital - Drupal Technical Architect @mikebell_ digital006
3. WHAT IS VAGRANT Vagrant is a command line wrapper for virtual box which provides utils for managing your VMs
4. VAGRANT TERMINOLOGY Host - Your physical machine Guest - The virtual machine
5. WHAT NOW? Vagrant supports puppet manifests out of the box so you can provision your development (and production) easily
6. RESOURCES Vagrant Nginx - There you go! Job Done... http://github.com/digital006/drupaldev-nginx
7. WHY SHOULD I USE THIS? 1. Throw away 2. Easy to rebuild 3. Closer to production 4. Flexible system
8. PRE-REQUISITE OS that supports NFS (OSX, Linux) - You can use 'doze if you want (not tested) Lots of RAM
9. DEMO TIME
10. SO WHAT JUST HAPPENED? Vagrant told virtual box to bring up a box (precise64) Puppet then configured the server according to our requirements Puppet also created the sites that we had specified
11. INTERNAL FEATURES/CONFIG sites > shared over nfs to /var/www port 3306 is mapped from the guest the host
12. WHAT IS PUPPET? Puppet is a provision tool to define the configuration of a server
13. PUPPET MANIFESTS The backbone of puppet Define your config here
14. PUPPET MODULES Existing puppet manifests and helper files Gives you a head start - great resource for existing modules Puppet Forge
15. PUPPET MANIFESTS - DEMO Existing manifests in DrupalDev - nginx
16. LIBRARIAN PUPPET Think composer to php Define your puppet modules in a config file and download them when needed Easy way to keep them up to date Librarian Puppet
17. QUESTIONS? If you want to help checkout my github issues page