This document discusses how Vagrant and Puppet can be used to easily set up development environments. It outlines how setting up environments currently can take days and involves manually installing many components, whereas with Vagrant it only requires installing an IDE, VirtualBox, Vagrant, and running "vagrant up" to get a full environment. The presenter then demonstrates setting up a simple Vagrant box to see it in action.

1. Development Environments Made Easy with Vagrant and Puppet
w/ Chris Stone

2. WHO IS CHRIS STONE?
•Community Guy
•Meetup Organizer - Baltimore PHP/Mobile/API
•Partner @ E-Moxie - www.emoxie.com
•PHP Developer, System Administrator - Wears ALL of the hats
•Always looking to maximize efficiencies and make life easier
•Tinkerer
•I’ve been around for awhile, I’ve seen some things
•Outside of work things: Dad, Home automation is a hobby, movie guy
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•chris@emoxie.com
•@cmstone

4. WHAT IS VAGRANT?
•Awesome
•Life changing
•New kid on the block
•The #1 tool you should have in your development arsenal
•Development tool that every developer and project should be using
•Manager for a virtualization provider (VirtualBox, VMWare, etc)
•Automates your development environment (Puppet or Chef)

5. WHY VAGRANT
•Gets rid of the “it works for me”
•EASY and FAST
•Everyone on the same page
•Closely resembles a production environment
•Keeps your computer clean
•Low barrier to entry

6. HOW IT IS NOW (PAINFUL!)
1. Someone new joins your company or team
2. They need to get their development environment setup
3. It takes 2 days to1week to get up and running
4. Install an IDE
5. Install MAMP or XAMP or something else that can serve pages
6. Make sure the PHP version is the same
7. Make sure the PHP config is the same
8. Install additional extensions
9. Configure MAMP
10. Always tackle “it’s working for me” problems in the environment
11. Environment relies on the local machine. Screwed it up? Do it
again.
12. Production environment got updated? Let’s make sure everyone
updates to the right version, do it again. Sounds fun....

8. HOW IT COULD BE
1. Someone new joins your company or team
2. They need to get their development environment setup
3. Install IDE
4. Install VirtualBox
5. Install Vagrant
6. Run ‘vagrant up’
7. Make things

9. WHAT DO I NEED
1. Vagrant - vagrantup.com
2. VirtualBox - virtualbox.org
3. PuPHPet - puphpet.com - GREAT Kickstarter to get you going

10. ENOUGH TALK
Let’s get a simple vagrant box setup and walk through the moving parts.
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