Railsbox All The Things

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1. Uniform Development and Production with Ansible and Vagrant Railsbox All The Things by Rob Kaufman
2. Who is This Guy?!? ❖ Founder and Developer at Notch8 a Development Consultancy ❖ One of the leaders of SDRuby (look for sandals) ❖ Founder of LEARN ❖ Ruby and Rails Developer for over a decade (gulp)
3. The Problems ❖ You development is different from staging and production ❖ Getting new developers up and running is hard ❖ Your infrastructure (aka servers) are too hard to set up
4. Some Players in the Automation Space ❖ Puppet ❖ Boxen ❖ Chef and Chef Solo ❖ Ansible ❖ Heroku /Elastic Beanstalk / etc
5. But Rob - Ansible is Python
6. Ansible ❖ SSH Based ❖ No agent or client on servers ❖ Just need SSH access to get started ❖ More straightforward but still scalable
7. But Rob - Ansible is Python!
8. Lorem Ipsum Dolor Use the Best Tool For the Job
9. But Rob - Ansible is Python!
11. Vagrant ❖ Runs an image in an emulator locally ❖ Makes all the dev dependencies automatically installed the same ❖ Brings parity to your development and production environments without “live” editing on a server
12. Railsbox
13. What Do We Get? ❖ Straightforward, Scalable Generator ❖ Code lives in your app so it doesn’t go stale ❖ Dev, Staging and Prod: Happy together ❖ Can use a Heroku clone dev box
14. –You Ok, so what does it look like?
15. Railsbox Gem ❖ Deployment and Database Rake Tasks ❖ Complement to having a railsbox directory in your app ❖ Room for more growth https://github.com/notch8/railsbox-tasks
16. Next Steps ❖ Add vagrant-hostmanager so we can have yourapp.dev and great ssl support locally when we need it ❖ More fully featured rake tasks ❖ command line railsbox version? ❖ Security and logging tools out of the box (the railsbox that is)
17. Thank You! Questions? ❖ www.notch8.com ❖ www.learnacademy.com ❖ @orangewolf ❖ rob@notch8.com ❖ Ask me about devops, Rails Maintenance plans or our new upgrade audit product