This document summarizes tools for setting up a consistent development environment using Vagrant, SaltStack, and Django. It discusses how Vagrant can be used to create virtual machines that are easy to configure and provision using tools like SaltStack. SaltStack is then highlighted as an orchestration tool that can be used to configure packages, services, and files using a simple YAML syntax. Examples are provided of using SaltStack states to install and configure an Nginx web server and a MySQL database.

1. Ararat Poghosyan
Backend Developer at Geno6
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2. Vagrant + SaltStack + Django
LIGHT AT THE END OF A
TUNNEL

3. The Story
• There was a developer
• And his team
• And a project
• And a server
• AND THE DEPLOYMENT PROBLEM

4. Possible Solutions
• Setup Scripts
• Readme
• Manual Setup

5. Still Problems?
• Operating System (Windows, Mac OS X,
Linux, etc.)
• Conflicts
• Something is missing
• Speed
• Not Repeatable

6. What is Vagrant?
• VM in few steps
• Easy to configure
• Simple provision
• Supports VirtualBox, VMWare, etc.
• Fast
Vagrant is a portable development
environment

7. Vagrant Concepts
• Boxes: Preinstalled templates
• Vagrantfile
• Vagrant CLI
$vagrant up
$vagrant halt
$vagrant ssh

8. Vagrant Features
• Networking
• Synced folders
• Port forwarding
• Provisioning: Puppet, Chef, SaltStack,
Shell scripts, etc.

9. The Vagrantfile

10. Provisioning

11. Who is using?

12. What is SaltStack
• Easy to learn
• Written in Python
• Active community
• Awesome
SaltStack is an orchestration and software
configuration management tool

13. SaltStack Features
• Language agnostic
• Simple and easy: YAML and Jinja
templates
• Can work in masterless mode
• Configure packages, services and files
• More than 200 built-in states
• Create your own modules

14. The State
nginx:
pkg:
- installed
service:
- running
- enable: True
- watch:
- file: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*
- require:
- pkg: nginx

15. Configuration
mysql-base:
mysql_database.present:
- name: {{ pillar["mysql"]["database"] }}
- require:
- service: mysql
mysql:
user: root
password: password
database: symba

16. Who Is Using

17. Example))

18. Thank You!!!