CI pipeline to build chef-takeaway development box using: - Hashicorp Packer and Vagrant - Virtualbox - Ansible - GitHub - Travis CI - Chef-DK - Kitchen CI - Docker

1. Chef Development Box
with Packer, Vagrant and Travis CI
build chef-takeaway
by Simone Soldateschi
20150625

2. Who I am
● Senior DevOps Engineer, Sydney
● Lead DevOps Team at Rackspace AU
● 15 years of experience as
○ Software Eng
○ Systems Eng
○ Been DevOps'in for the last 5-ish years

3. Why

4. chef-takeaway

5. ● simple
● repeatable
● versioned
Things should be

6. “Simple”
Just 3 steps:
● git clone git@github.com:siso/chef-takeaway.git
● .
● vagrant up
● vagrant ssh -- -A

7. I lied ;)
Just 3 steps:
● git clone git@github.com:siso/chef-takeaway.git
● cd chef-takeaway
● vagrant up
● vagrant ssh -- -A

8. …
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:119:in `requirement': undefined local variable
or method `version_requirements' for #<Rails::GemDependency:0xb7181c78> (NameError)
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:254:in `activate'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:1204:in `gem'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/rails/gem_dependency.rb:73:in `add_load_paths'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/initializer.rb:301:in `add_gem_load_paths'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/initializer.rb:301:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/initializer.rb:301:in `add_gem_load_paths'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/initializer.rb:132:in `process'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/initializer.rb:113:in `send'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/initializer.rb:113:in `run'
from /home/user/application/config/environment.rb:19
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:521:in `new_constants_in'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.4/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:156:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.4/lib/commands/server.rb:84
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:in `gem_original_require'
from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:29:in `require'
from script/server:3
...
“Repeatable”

9. vagrant destroy && vagrant up
“Repeatable”

10. “Versioned”

11. What

13. Linux
your favourite Linux distro

14. Provisioning
install and configure all the things

15. Test it

16. Share

17. Run it
manage boxes easily

18. TDD
Kitchen CI and Docker

19. How

20. Build

21. Build

22. Build
● variables
● builders
● provisioner
● post-processor

23. Build
"variables": {
"core": 1,
"memory": 512,
"disk_size": 10140,
"ssh_port": 22,
"ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
"iso_url": "http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.0.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-
8.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
"iso_md5": "d9209f355449fe13db3963571b1f52d4",
"vm_name": "chef-takeaway",
"vm_version": "0.3.1”
},

24. "builders": [
{
"boot_command": [
"<esc><wait>",
"install <wait>",
"preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed-jessie.cfg <wait>",
...
"<enter><wait>"
],
"disk_size": "{{user `disk_size`}}",
"guest_os_type": "Debian_64",
"headless": true,
...
Build

25. "provisioners": [
{
"type": "shell",
"execute_command": "echo 'vagrant' | {{ .Vars }} sudo -E -S sh '{{ .Path
}}'",
"inline": [
"sleep 30"
]
},
...
Build

26. "provisioners": [
...,
{
"type": "ansible-local",
"pause_before": "5s",
"playbook_dir": "../ansible",
"playbook_file": "../ansible/main.yml",
"role_paths": ["../ansible"],
"extra_arguments": ["-vvvv", "-u", "root"]
},
Build

27. Build
"post-processors": [
{
"type": "vagrant",
"output": "./{{.Provider}}/{{user `vm_name`}}-{{user `vm_version`}}.box"
}
],

28. Push and Test

30. Share

32. Recap

35. Simone Soldateschi