Vagrant, Chef, and the last 72 Hours
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...
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Vagrant and Multi-Node Rackspace Private Cloud
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...
View ArticleMultiple Provider Vagrant Files
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...
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Nyan Nyan Nyan Batman!
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...
View ArticleGetting Started with Vagrant & VirtualBox
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...
View ArticleCouch to OpenStack – Vagrant Primer Follow-up
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...
View ArticleSome ngnix things
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...
View Article[Update] Vagrant, Puppet, OpenStack
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,...
View ArticleVirtualBox – Power Off A Lot of VMs
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...
View ArticleHow to Make A LOT of Devstack with Vagrant
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...
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