1 milestone42 milestone42 Copyright © 2013. Sumanth Vepa. Automating Development with Vagrant and Salt 

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3 milestone42 milestone42 3 Setup a development environment • Quickly • Reproducibly, • and, in a Controlled way. What is Vagrant? Why Use Vagrant? • Isolate dependencies • Reproducible environment • Disposable – test and discard and recreate quickly • Versionable – keep your environment versioned • Shareable http://www.vagrantup.com/ 

4 milestone42 Using Vagrant $ mkdir vagrant-test; cd vagrant-test $ vagrant init precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box $ vagrant up $ vagrant ssh On the host vagrant@precise32:~$ ls /vagrant Vagrantfile On the guest $ ls ./vagrant-test Vagrantfile On the host 

5 milestone42 Configuring the environment – simplistic Vagrantfile bootstrap.sh 

6 milestone42 milestone42 6 (Very) Brief overview of Salt • Distributed configuration management • Rapid deployment across large numbers of hosts. • Uses Python as the implementation language. Salt master Salt minion Salt minion Salt minion 

7 milestone42 $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-salt On the host: One additional package Configuring the environment with Salt $ cd test-vagrant $ mkdir –p ./salt/roots $ touch salt/minion $ touch salt/roots/apache.sls $ touch salt/roots/top.sls Create the salt configuration Vagrantfile 

8 milestone42 Additions to the Vagrantfile for Salt ./salt/minion ./salt/roots/top.sls ./salt/roots/apache Configuring the environment with Salt 

9 milestone42 milestone42 9 More information Vagrant: http://vagrantup.com Salt: http://www.saltstack.com/ Salt+Vagrant: nygaard.quora.com/Using-Vagrant-and-Salt-stack-together milestone42.com Consulting and software services for development operations and automation.