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Automating Development Operations with Vagrant and Salt (the 5min intro)

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Sumanth Vepa
Sumanth Vepa

A 5-minute introduction to using Vagrant and Salt together. As a Python developer, I find Salt much more friendly to my way of development. The ideas here are based on Christian Nygaard's blog post on Quora. http://cnygaard.quora.com/Using-Vagrant-and-Salt-stack-together

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milestone42 Automating Development with Vagrant and Salt 1 milestone42 Copyright ? 2013. Sumanth Vepa.
Copyright ? 2013. Sumanth Vepa This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bysa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. 2 milestone42
What is Vagrant? Why Use Vagrant? http://www.vagrantup.com/ ? Isolate dependencies Setup a development environment ? Quickly ? Reproducibly, ? and, in a Controlled way. ? Reproducible environment ? Disposable ¨C test and discard and recreate quickly ? Versionable ¨C keep your environment versioned ? Shareable 3 milestone42
Using Vagrant On the host $ mkdir vagrant-test; cd vagrant-test $ vagrant init precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box $ vagrant up $ vagrant ssh On the guest vagrant@precise32:~$ ls /vagrant Vagrantfile 4 On the host $ ls ./vagrant-test Vagrantfile milestone42
Configuring the environment ¨C simplistic Vagrantfile bootstrap.sh 5 milestone42
(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 6 Salt minion Salt minion milestone42
Configuring the environment with Salt On the host: One additional package $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-salt Create the salt configuration $ cd test-vagrant $ mkdir ¨Cp ./salt/roots $ touch salt/minion $ touch salt/roots/apache.sls $ touch salt/roots/top.sls Vagrantfile 7 milestone42
Configuring the environment with Salt Additions to the Vagrantfile for Salt ./salt/minion 8 ./salt/roots/top.sls ./salt/roots/apache milestone42
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. 9 milestone42

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Automating Development Operations with Vagrant and Salt (the 5min intro)

  • 1. milestone42 Automating Development with Vagrant and Salt 1 milestone42 Copyright ? 2013. Sumanth Vepa.
  • 2. Copyright ? 2013. Sumanth Vepa This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bysa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. 2 milestone42
  • 3. What is Vagrant? Why Use Vagrant? http://www.vagrantup.com/ ? Isolate dependencies Setup a development environment ? Quickly ? Reproducibly, ? and, in a Controlled way. ? Reproducible environment ? Disposable ¨C test and discard and recreate quickly ? Versionable ¨C keep your environment versioned ? Shareable 3 milestone42
  • 4. Using Vagrant On the host $ mkdir vagrant-test; cd vagrant-test $ vagrant init precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box $ vagrant up $ vagrant ssh On the guest vagrant@precise32:~$ ls /vagrant Vagrantfile 4 On the host $ ls ./vagrant-test Vagrantfile milestone42
  • 5. Configuring the environment ¨C simplistic Vagrantfile bootstrap.sh 5 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 6 Salt minion Salt minion milestone42
  • 7. Configuring the environment with Salt On the host: One additional package $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-salt Create the salt configuration $ cd test-vagrant $ mkdir ¨Cp ./salt/roots $ touch salt/minion $ touch salt/roots/apache.sls $ touch salt/roots/top.sls Vagrantfile 7 milestone42
  • 8. Configuring the environment with Salt Additions to the Vagrantfile for Salt ./salt/minion 8 ./salt/roots/top.sls ./salt/roots/apache 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. 9 milestone42