Sometimes you need to make A LOT of devstack instances, and on different providers. That is, some in the cloud, others locally, and then some. At least, I keep finding myself in situations where this happens, so, I made a little Vagrantfile to handle the details for me. Here is the Vagrantfile I use to
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While working on the OpenStack Cookbook (buy it here), we used Vagrant (check it out here). Vagrant allowed us to specify a number of VMs in a given file, and power them all up or down as a single operation. It was extremely useful for sharing an environment between two authors. That said, there are
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Recently, Puppet Labs released an “Grizzly” module, based on their work with the Puppet Labs OpenStack module, that takes a more role based approach. That is, it breaks out things like controller, compute, and storage. It also combines them with Hiera in a much more elegant way than before. I covered using Puppet and Hiera
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Playing around with a few ideas for #vBrownBag tech talk voting, I was trying to deploy a ruby app with Puma and Ngnix. Here’s a number of the resources used: http://gerardmcgarry.com/blog/setting-a-virtual-host-nginx http://blog.andolasoft.com/2013/06/how-to-configure-rails-application-with-puma-and-ngnix-on-centos.html https://github.com/DruRly/reddit-in-sinatra http://www.drurly.com/blog/2012/06/30/build-reddit-in-sinatra-2/ http://www.drurly.com/blog/2013/06/09/sinatra-with-puma/ I also tied it in with Vagrant & the Rackspace provider. Depending on how things go, there will be a
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Last night Mr. VMTrooper himself (@VMTrooper) walked us through the basics of Vagrant. That is, we started with nothing, installed Vagrant and VirtualBox. From there we spun up the first VM. Then we delved into some of the various provisioners, scripts, and more advanced multi-vm vagrant environments. If you are following along and get stuck,
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Part of the pre-work / homework for next weeks “Couch to OpenStack” program is to get a Vagrant environment going on your laptop (or wherever else you choose to run these things). We’re not going to go into the “Why Vagrant” or “What is Vagrant” questions. Those are better answered elsewhere. What follows are the
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A more practical (Ok, it’s not that practical) example of the multi provider vagrant file. I present ascii Nyan cat. From a box with either Fusion or Virtualbox: git clone https://github.com/bunchc/vagrant-nyancat.gitvagrant upvagrant sshtmux new-session -d ‘nyancat’ ; split-window -d ; attach Depending on the provider… wait 5 minutes, and then Nyan!
With the latest Vagrant out, you can start to do some cool things, like use different back ends. However, what if some of your team uses Fusion while others use vBox, and then for production you need to deploy to some flavor of Cloud? For the most part, your vagrant file will be able to
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At some point in the last few weeks, Rackspace released an update to their OpenStack Private Cloud distro. This time around setting it up is straight forward, a line or two of copy & paste bash script. However, being as lazy as I am, I wanted to be able to build a cluster of these
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At the suggestion of someone in the office that I look into using Vagrant in conjunction with a project, I started digging… and digging. Here are some links: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/provisioners/shell.html http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/multivm.html http://docs.vagrantup.com/v1/docs/getting-started/ports.html http://blog.codenut.org/?p=91 http://www.bluebox.net/about/blog/2013/01/provisioning-with-razor-and-chef-an-interactive-demo/ Now, those links, and likely a number I’ve closed and lost, along with some of these for Chef: http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/ http://docs.opscode.com/knife.html http://docs.opscode.com/config_rb_client.html https://github.com/rcbops/chef-cookbooks
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