Development environments with Vagrant. Presentation at Codebits 2012

1. Vagrant
Team development made easy

2. Me
Technical Leader @Centralway
Before?
Intraneia
● Open-Source, Ubuntu
Deloitte
● IT Audits, Security & Privacy

3. How do we develop..

4. Local development environment
MySQL Apache2 Python PEAR RVM
npm nginx PostgreSQL PHP Ruby
RoR MongoDB ....
???

5. Local development environment
No Isolation
Not Shareable
Not Repeatable

6. Alternative?
Virtual Machines

7. Vagrant
Free and open source
Started on January 21, 2010 by Mitchell
Hashimoto and John Bender.
The first release, 0.1.0 released on March 7,
2010.
Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows

8. Vision
The vision of the project is to create a tool to
transparently manage all the complex parts of
modern development within a virtual
environment without affecting the everyday
workflow of the developer too much.

9. Vagrant
~12000 lines of Ruby
~3500 : test code
~5500 : "plugins"
~3300 : core
Thats a lot of code!!!

11. Script must...
Import a virtual machine
setup host only networking
setup shared folders
boots the machine
provision the machine
support Mac, Linux, and Windows
guest additions
NFS

12. and how do we use it?

13. the basic way
#Fetch the Box
$ vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box
#Init Vagrant on your current folder
$ vagrant init
#Start it!!
$ vagrant up

14. with various projects...

16. Vagrantfile
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
config.vm.box = "debian"
config.vm.box_url = "http://path/to/vagrantbox.box"
config.vm.network :hostonly, "10.10.10.10", :adapter=>4
config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "512"]
end

17. Vagrantfile
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
config.vm.box = "debian"
config.vm.box_url = "http://path/to/vagrantbox.box"
config.vm.network :hostonly, "10.10.10.10", :adapter=>4
config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "512"]
config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
puppet.manifests_path = "vagrant/puppet/manifests"
puppet.manifest_file = "base.pp"
end
config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "/bin/bash /vagrant/myscript.sh"
end

18. Vagrantfile
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
config.vm.box = "debian"
config.vm.box_url = "http://path/to/vagrantbox.box"
config.vm.network :hostonly, "10.10.10.10", :adapter=>4
config.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "512"]
config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
puppet.manifests_path = "vagrant/puppet/manifests"
puppet.manifest_file = "base.pp"
end
config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "/bin/bash /vagrant/myscript.sh"
end

19. Demo time....

20. important vagrant commands
vagrant up
vagrant provision
vagrant suspend
vagrant halt
vagrant destroy

21. tips
shared folders vs NFS
golden box vs clean box
similar environments -> helps deployments
Multi-VM Environments
http://vagrantup.com/v1/docs/multivm.html

22. tips
veewee
● github.com/jedi4ever/veewee
puppet / chef

23. Thank You
vagrantup.com
vagrantbox.es
github.com/igama/wp-vagrant-demo