Vagrant to the rescue

In this talk, an introduction to vagrant is given. The audience is made aware of current problems with local development environments and how vagrant solves them. The different parts of vagrant are described and some use cases are presented. The presentation closes with answering some common questions from users starting to use vagrant.

Transcript

1. Vagrant to the rescue
   Linuxwochen Wien 2014
   @Sgoettschkes
   

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2. http://xkcd.com/303/
   

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3. http://community.openatria.com/sites/community.openatria.com/files/vagrant.png
   

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4. “It works on my machine”
   

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5. “It’s all in SETUP.md”
   

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7. Enter vagrant
   

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8. Building blocks
   Configuration
   + Provider
   + Provisioner
   + Plugins
   = Vagrant
   http://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2010/12/10/08/salad-1105_640.jpg
   

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9. Configuration
   Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
   config.vm.box = "Sgoettschkes/debian7"
   config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "127.0.0.101"
   config.vm.synced_folder "../", "/srv/workspace"
   config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef|
   chef.add_recipe "main"
   end
   end
   

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10. Providers
    

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11. Provisioners
    

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12. Plugins
    # AWS provider
    $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws
    # Boxen provisioner
    $ vagrant plugin install ventriloquist
    # Manage host files
    $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
    # Make screenshots of your VM
    $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-camera
    # … many more!
    

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13. Synced folders
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/BalticServers_data_center.jpg
    

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14. SSH
    http://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2013/04/08/22/48/tunnel-101976_640.jpg
    $ vagrant ssh
    # or
    $ ssh -p 2222
    vagrant@localhost
    # with password “vagrant”
    

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15. Basic workflow
    $ git clone git@github.com:awesomecompany/awesomeVm.git
    $ cd awesomeVm && vagrant up
    # Hack away
    $ git pull --rebase
    $ vagrant provision
    # Hack some more and change provision files
    $ vagrant provision
    $ git commit -am ‘Incredible changes’ && git push
    

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16. Use cases
    Development environment
    

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17. Use cases
    Development environment
    Testing environment
    

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18. Use cases
    Development environment
    Testing environment
    Local test box for PMs & Designer
    

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19. Use cases
    Development environment
    Testing environment
    Local test box for PMs & Designer
    Playing around
    

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20. Use cases
    Development environment
    Testing environment
    Local test box for PMs & Designer
    Playing around
    with clusters
    

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21. Use cases
    

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22. What about...
    chef vs puppet?
    

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23. What about...
    one vs many boxes?
    

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24. What about...
    base boxes?
    

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25. What about performance?
    

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26. Vagrant
    “Development Environments
    made easy”
    

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