The MetaCPAN VM for Dummies Part One (Installation)
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Get up and running with the MetaCPAN VM. This talk walks you through the process of installing the VM.
The MetaCPAN VM for Dummies Part One (Installation)
- 1. The MetaCPAN VM (for Dummies?) Olaf Alders @wundercounter Toronto Perl Mongers Oct 24, 2013 Monday, 11 November, 13
- 2. Why bother? Installation and configuration from scratch is non-trivial Remove some of the up-front cost to contributors Develop in an environment which closely mimics deployment Monday, 11 November, 13
- 4. Hardware Requirements Less than 1 GB hard disk space Less than 1 GB of RAM Some arbitrary amount of CPU Monday, 11 November, 13
- 5. That was the minimum As far as hardware goes, you can scale up Depends on how far you want to take this Monday, 11 November, 13
- 6. The MetaCPAN Stack Debian puppet ElasticSearch Catalyst CPAN or miniCPAN or even some arbitrary CPAN dirs perlbrew Monday, 11 November, 13
- 7. The Meta Pieces cpan-api (the original MetaCPAN) metacpan-web metacpan-puppet metacpan-developer metacpan-examples Monday, 11 November, 13
- 8. How easy is it? mkdir metacpan && cd metacpan git git git git clone clone clone clone git://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-puppet.git git://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api.git git://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web.git git://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-explorer.git cd .. git clone git://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-developer.git cd metacpan-developer vagrant up && vagrant ssh Monday, 11 November, 13
- 9. Guest vs Host Host: your laptop, PC, whatever. your hardware Guest: the installed VM Monday, 11 November, 13
- 10. So what? Edit code using the tools you already have installed on the *Host* What? Monday, 11 November, 13
- 11. No SSH setup required vagrant ssh just works Monday, 11 November, 13
- 12. Port Forwarding Just works cpan-api http://localhost:5000 metacpan-web http://localhost:5001 Monday, 11 November, 13
- 13. Sharing files without scp Files you add to the metacpandeveloper folder will be available in /vagrant Files you add to /vagrant will be available in metacpan-developer Monday, 11 November, 13
- 14. Managing services on the guest stop, start, restart services /etc/init.d/metacpan-www /etc/init.d/metacpan-api /etc/init.d/elasticsearch Monday, 11 November, 13
- 15. Does it work? http://localhost:5001 http://0.0.0.0:5001 Monday, 11 November, 13
- 16. Having trouble? The metacpan-developer README has lots of great troubleshooting tips Monday, 11 November, 13
- 17. Maybe modules are missing? if the dependencies have changed since the Vagrant boxfile was built, you may be missing some modules sudo /home/metacpan/bin/install_modules Monday, 11 November, 13
- 18. Youre ready to hack Well discuss how to hack MetaCPAN in next months presentation Monday, 11 November, 13