This document discusses the integration of Vagrant and Ansible for Symfony development, highlighting how Vagrant facilitates virtual machine management and configuration consistency among developers. It provides essential commands for starting and managing Vagrant environments as well as instructions for using Ansible to automate environment provisioning. Additionally, it includes links to resources for further exploration and GitHub repositories related to Symfony, Vagrant, and Ansible.

1. Symfony development with
Vagrant and Ansible
Symfony User Group Belgium Meetup - http://symfonians.be
January 2014

2. Me, myself and I
Jean-Christophe Cuvelier
Partner @ Morris & Chapman Belgium
Founder @ Pictawall.com
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Web entrepreneur
Begun with a Commodore 64
Creative PHP developer
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be.linkedin.com/in/totophe
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github.com/totophe
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@totophe

3. Vagrant
“Vagrant provides easy to
configure, reproducible, and
portable work environments built
on top of industry-standard
technology and controlled by a
single consistent workflow to help
maximize the productivity and
flexibility of you and your team.”
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Basically, Vagrant is a nice way to
create virtual machines on the fly,
and distribute a common
configuration across multiple
developers to avoid the “But it
work on my machine” famous
quote.

4. Getting started with Vagrant
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vagrant init mymachine http://files.vagrantup.com/
precise64.box
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vagrant up
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Vagrantfile
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vagrant halt
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vagrant destroy

5. Some Vagrantfile recipes
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Forwarding a local port:
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 81
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Adding a dedicated private ip:
config.vm.network "private_network", ip: “192.168.100.100"
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Provisioning with a shell script:
config.vm.provision :shell, :path => “db.sh"
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Changing the memory for the virtual machine
config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024"]
end

6. Ansible
“Ansible is the simplest way to
automate.”
Ansible is a provisioning system
that allows you to create
recipes to build a specific
environment and to replicate it
on as many machines as you
want. It allows you to build a
very specific version of a
system and to ensure that this
configuration works with your
project.

7. Getting started with Ansible
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hosts file
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ansible all -m ping -i hosts
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ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts
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ansible folder structure with tasks & templates using
Yaml and Jinja2 (very similar to Twig*)
* Obviously, Twig is based on Jinja2

8. Ansible with Vagrant
config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible|
ansible.playbook = "provisioning/playbook.yml"
ansible.extra_vars = {private_interface: "192.168.100.1"}
end

9. Ansible with Vagrant and
Symfony

10. Symfony with Vagrant and
Ansible
https://github.com/symfonians/symfony-vagrant-ansible
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git clone https://github.com/symfonians/symfony-vagrant-ansible.git
vagrant up

11. Thank you!
jcc@pictawall.com - @totophe
be.linkedin.com/in/totophe - github.com/totophe
http://www.meetup.com/Symfony-User-Group-Belgium/