• Introduction
• Vagrant
• Installation
• Scripting
• Cookbooks
• Connecting to DB
• Todo

Introduction

Cloud instances can be created from a CHEF script, this same script can be used to create Vagrant / VirtualBox VMs that can be used directly on the developers machine.

This creates a system where each developer is working independently and possibly remotely on a system that is identical to the production machines.

Vagrant

Vagrant utilises VirtualBox to create VMs from a script. Utilising Chef Solo we can automate the installation and running of a wide range of scenarios.

Vagrant can be used to bring up several VMs on the local machines to replicate the full production infrastructure.

• Create Scripts based on the current production set-up.
• Vagrant Tutorial
• Vagrant Boxes
• Vagrant on Windows

To power off a started vagrant machine that is perhaps in error

VBoxManage controlvm VMNAME poweroff

Installation

Download Box

$ sudo vagrant box add Precise64 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box

Use the below to cache certain downloads Vagrant will make when preparing a box.

Cache Downloads

Elastic Search

• Elastic Search with Chef Solo
• Configuration

Location on production server

~/software/elasticsearch

Scripting

Chef Resources

Cookbooks

• Apt : 1.7.0
• Build Essential : 1.3.2
• Database : 1.3.8
• ElasticSearch : 0.1.0
• ImageMagick : 0.2.2
• JAVA : 1.7.0
• MySQL : 2.1.0
• Nginx : 1.1.2
• Ohai : 1.1.6
• OpenSSL : 1.0.0
• PHP : 1.1.4
• PHP-FPM : 0.3.0
• RUnit : 0.16.2

Would be nice to document also what version of each software the above cookbooks will install.

Connecting to DB

mysql -uroot -ppassword

Provide details on client connection

Todo

• Check out Berk Shelf more
• MySQL My.conf in build folder
• Sort out nginx conf
• Elastic Search conf
• PHP Conf
• Check out the installation of a chef server - maybe cookbooks remain up to date then