Vagrant allows setting up portable development environments for TYPO3 projects quickly using virtual machines. Chef is a configuration management tool that can automate the provisioning of these Vagrant boxes. Using Vagrant and Chef together provides benefits like sharing projects easily and having development environments match production.

1. Vagrant, Chef
andTYPO3
💞 💞 💞 a love affair 💞 💞 💞

2. @kaktusmimi
lihsmi.ch

3. Gewinnspiel
• Wie viele Einhörner sind in den Slides?
• Twitter an @codecoon und gewinne einen
USB 3.0 – Stick mit einer Codecoon Box

4. Outline
• Motivation
• IntroducingVagrant & Chef
• TYPO3 &Vagrant
• „The punkt.deWay“
• Codecoon

5. How long does it take you to set
up a newTYPO3 project?

6. How do you handle multiple
TYPO3 projects on your
development machine?

7. How do you share projects
With your colleagues?

8. “But it worked on my machine!”

9. What about
“You build it – you run it!”

10. How canVagrant help you?
• Install (multiple)TYPO3 projects in minutes
• Have it “to go”
• Share it with others
• Have a “copy” of your production server

11. Technology Stack
VirtualBox
Free Open SourceVirtualizationTool
Chef
Configuration Management
Framework
Vagrant
“Remote Control” forVirtualBox

12. What isVagrant?
• Building tool for portable work environments
• Written in Ruby
• Open Source
• Build upon well-established tools

13. Vagrant Components
• Vagrant Box
• Vagrantfile
• Provisioners
• Providers

14. Vagrant Boxes
• Basically a “tweaked” virtual machine Image
• Used as base layer for all further provisioning
• Many pre-installed boxes available online:

16. $ vagrant box add {title} {url}
$ vagrant init {title}
$ vagrant up

17. TheVagrantfile
• Configures yourVagrant environment

19. Provisioners
• Run once the box is booted inVirtualBox
• „Where the magic happens“
– Installing packages and software
– Configuration and starting of services
– E.g. creating vhost, database, ...

20. Providers
• Describe in which virtualization environment
to provision your machines
• Multiple providers available
– VirtualBox
– VMWare
– Amazon AWS

21. What is Chef?
• Configuration Management AutomationTool
• Written in Ruby
– Provides easy-to-learn (?) DSL
• „Infrastructure as code“
– Reproducible,Testable,Versionable

23. ChefTools
• Chef Client
• Chef Server
• Knife
• …too many

24. Chef Components
• Cookbooks, Recipes, Resources
• Attributes
• Templates
• Roles
• and many more…

25. └── cookbook_name
├── attributes
│ └── default.rb
├── recipes
│ └── default.rb
├── templates
│ └── default
│ └── template.erb
└── metadata.rb

28. Provisioning
Run Chef in yourVagrantBox
sudo chef-solo –c solo.rb -j config.json

29. chef run
vagrant up
import image
provision projects
mount cookbooks

30. Vagrant &TYPO3
• Find inspiration on
https://git.typo3.org/Teams/Server/Vagrant/T
ypo3Org.git

31. Your ownVagrant Box
• The “Playbook-to-Cookbook-Algorithm”
– Write installation steps in a text document
– Follow steps yourself, refine document
– Give document to someone else, refine again
– No changes in document  start writing
cookbooks

32. GenericTYPO3
Cookbook
1. Install Packages for Apache, MySQL, PHP
2. Provision Webspace(s) and vhost(s)
3. Provision MySQL Database(s)
4. DownloadTYPO3 sources (or use Composer)
5. Clone your Git project

33. “The punkt.de way”
• Project configuration in JSON files (DataBags)
• Each developer works on multiple projects
• Each developer has individual projects list

34. “The punkt.de way”
• Vagrant Box == Hosting Server
• Provisioning with Chef
• Chef recipes also used for Jenkins

35. “The punkt.de way”
• Project files on Host
– NFS mount intoVagrant Box
– No problems with IDE & Git
– Faster provisioning after vagrant destroy

36. “The punkt.de way”
• Next steps
– Provisioning of hosting servers with Chef
– BuildingVagrant Boxes on CI Server
– Vagrant Boxes for customers
– Codecoon

38. The nice things…
• Multi-Machine setup
• Remote Debugging with PHPStorm
• Local Project Files
• Git GUIs
• Ships with all the tools
– Node.js, grunt, bower, xdebug, …

39. Biggest Pain: File Mounts
• 3 solutions
– VirtualBox /VMWare shared folders
– Samba Mounts
– NFS Mounts
• Files in Box -- Mount on Host
• Files on Host -- Mount in Box

40. Codecoon
Make it fun to code again!
• Ready-to-use Vagrant Boxes
• Identical to hosting environment
• One-click deployment
• Try it www.codecoon.com

41. Summary
• Vagrant is a great tool for portable boxes
• Chef can help you manage your configuration
• „Infrastructure as Code“
• Same environment on dev and production
• DevOps brings devs and admins together