The document discusses using Vagrant and Packer to automate the creation of development environments and machine images. Vagrant allows developers to run identical virtual machine environments across different platforms using configuration files. Packer is introduced as a tool to automate the creation of machine images for platforms like AWS, Digital Ocean, OpenStack from a single configuration file, enabling images to be deployed everywhere consistently. The benefits of these tools for improving developer mobility and ensuring environments are identical are highlighted.

1.
Vagrant & Packer
RAX Hack Night

2. So…
I automated *all* the things
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3. So…
Feel quite smug about it
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4. So…
Got my environments in order
DEV
QA
PROD
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5. So…
All is good
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6. So…
OR IS IT?!?!
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7. So…
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8. So…
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9. So… the problem
How do you get your DEVs
mobile?
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10. So… the problem
Have a dev portable platform!
that is the *SAME* everywhere
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11. So… the problem
Why the hell they all work from
Starbucks?!?!?
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12. Vagrant!
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13. Vagrant!
You have a base Box VM
Add some script sprinkles
Attach to chef or Puppet!
or something else
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14. Base Box
You have a base Box
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15. Base Box
Where can I run this Base Box?
VirtualBox!
VMWare Fusion!
VMWare Workstation
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16. Base Box
Where can I run this Base Box?
Rackspace Cloud!
Amazon!
OpenStack
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17. Base Box
As simple as 1…2…3…
vagrant
box
add
$title
$BOX_URL
vagrant
init
$title
vagrant
up
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18. Plugins!
ansible
vagrant-­‐berkshelf
vagrant-­‐librarian-­‐puppet
vagrant-­‐lxc
vagrant-­‐salt
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19. Vagrantfile
Defines what Vagrant will do
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20. Vagrantfile
Vagrant.configure("2")
do
|config|
config.vm.box
=
"precise64"
config.vm.box_url
=
"http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"
config.vm.network
:private_network,
ip:
"192.168.33.10"
config.vm.synced_folder
"../data",
"/vagrant_data"
config.vm.provider
:virtualbox
do
|vb|
vb.customize
["modifyvm",
:id,
"-­‐-­‐memory",
"1024"]
end
end
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21. Vagrantfile
Vagrant.configure("2")
do
|config|
config.vm.box
=
"precise64"
config.vm.box_url
=
"http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box"
config.vm.network
:private_network,
ip:
"192.168.33.10"
config.vm.provision
:puppet
do
|puppet|
puppet.manifests_path
=
"manifests"
puppet.manifest_file
=
"init.pp"
end
end
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22. Taking this to 11!
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23. Taking this to 11!
Vagrant.configure("2")
do
|config|
config.vm.provision
"shell",
inline:
"echo
Hello"
config.vm.define
"web"
do
|web|
web.vm.box
=
"apache"
end
config.vm.define
"db"
do
|db|
db.vm.box
=
"mysql"
end
end
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24. Taking this to 11!
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25. And now…
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26. And now…
Packer!
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27. Packer
Do your GMs RIGHT
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28. Packer
Add that Puppet!
you always!
wanted
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29. Packer
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30. Packer
From a single config file
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31. Packer
Deploy EVERYWHERE
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32. Packer
Amazon AWS!
Digital Ocean!
OpenStack!
VMWare
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33. Packer
{
"builders":
[{
"type":
"amazon-­‐ebs",
"access_key":
"YOUR
KEY
HERE",
"secret_key":
"YOUR
SECRET
KEY
HERE",
"region":
"us-­‐east-­‐1",
"source_ami":
"ami-­‐de0d9eb7",
"instance_type":
"t1.micro",
"ssh_username":
"ubuntu",
"ami_name":
"packer-­‐example
{{timestamp}}"
}]
}
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34. Packer
$
packer
build
example.json
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
amazon-­‐ebs
output
will
be
in
this
color.
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Creating
temporary
keypair
for
this
instance...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Creating
temporary
security
group
for
this
instance...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Authorizing
SSH
access
on
the
temporary
security
group...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Launching
a
source
AWS
instance...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Waiting
for
instance
to
become
ready...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Connecting
to
the
instance
via
SSH...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Stopping
the
source
instance...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Waiting
for
the
instance
to
stop...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Creating
the
AMI:
packer-­‐example
1371856345
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
AMI:
ami-­‐19601070
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Waiting
for
AMI
to
become
ready...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Terminating
the
source
AWS
instance...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Deleting
temporary
security
group...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Deleting
temporary
keypair...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Build
finished.
!
==>
Builds
finished.
The
artifacts
of
successful
builds
are:
-­‐-­‐>
amazon-­‐ebs:
AMIs
were
created:
!
us-­‐east-­‐1:
ami-­‐19601070
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35. Packer
Deploy to more than one!
provider at the same time!
using the “builders” array
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36. Packer
$
packer
build
example.json
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
amazon-­‐ebs
output
will
be
in
this
color.
==>
digitalocean:
digitalocean
output
will
be
in
this
color.
!
==>
digitalocean:
Creating
temporary
ssh
key
for
droplet...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Creating
temporary
keypair
for
this
instance...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Creating
temporary
security
group
for
this
instance...
==>
digitalocean:
Creating
droplet...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Authorizing
SSH
access
on
the
temporary
security
group...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Launching
a
source
AWS
instance...
==>
digitalocean:
Waiting
for
droplet
to
become
active...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Waiting
for
instance
to
become
ready...
==>
digitalocean:
Connecting
to
the
droplet
via
SSH...
==>
amazon-­‐ebs:
Connecting
to
the
instance
via
SSH...
...
==>
Builds
finished.
The
artifacts
of
successful
builds
are:
-­‐-­‐>
amazon-­‐ebs:
AMIs
were
created:
!
us-­‐east-­‐1:
ami-­‐376d1d5e
-­‐-­‐>
digitalocean:
A
snapshot
was
created:
packer-­‐1371870364
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37. Packer
Also deploy to Vagrant!
using the “post-processors”!
array
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38. Packer
{
"builders":
[...],
!
"provisioners":
[...],
!
"post-­‐processors":
["vagrant"]
}
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