1. www.bstonetech.com
Presented by Dan Katz and Nneka Hector
CapitalCampDC 2012
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2. Overview
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 What You’ll Learn
 How to leverage cross-platform tools for managing
and deploying virtual machines from local
development to the AWS Cloud
 Who Are We?
 Dan Katz, Architect (@mtndan),
dkatz@bstonetech.com
 Nneka Hector, Developer (@nneka),
nhector@bstonetech.com
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3. Common Pain Points
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 We’re stuck using
Windows laptops
 Our development, test,
staging and production
environments don’t match
 We don’t have time to
train up the new guy/gal
 We want to use our
favorite IDE’s / Editors
 We need a simple way to
deploy our application to
the cloud
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4. Enter…..Vagrant (pretty cool)
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 Vagrant helps manage
virtual machines
 Vagrant is FOSS
 Vagrant keeps everyone
working in the same
environment, no matter
what kind of
development machine
they use
 It’s easy peasy – here’s a
simple demo!
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5. Basic Vagrant Demo
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 Standing up a VM
 Guest/Host concept
 Boxes
 VagrantFile
 PortForwarding
 Vagrant SSH
 Shared Folder
 But we need more!
 LAMP stack
 Thingslike Drush
 The Drupal app we are working on
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6. +Github +Chef +AWS
(waaaaaaay cool!)
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 Chef = automated
server configuration
 Github = simple source
code management
 AWS = shared cloud
infrastructure
 Combined, a way to
deploy environment
PLUS application from
local dev to the cloud
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7. Chef+Github+Vagrant+AWS Demo
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 Standing up Drupal Demo project VM
 Storing application and environment config in
source control
 Automating VM config with Chef Solo cookbooks
 Deploying a VM to AWS
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8. Future Directions
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 CI – let a build tool like Jenkins kick off postinstall
 Incorporate automated testing – security,
functional, performance
 Features-based workflow
 Public release of our scripts
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9. Questions?
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