1. PuPHPet
Introduction to PHP VMs
BarCamp Fond du Lac
2013

2. Jim Lind
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I'm a PHP Developer
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My Employer is Hiring
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I'm on Social Media

3. Virtual Machines
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Servers and Desktops are different
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Modern CPUs are up to the task
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VirtualBox is free (virtualbox.org)
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Consistency in your team
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VMs can be difficult to setup
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VMs take up a lot of disk space

4. Vagrant (vagrantup.com)
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Creating a Vagrant VM
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vagrant init precise32 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box
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vagrant up
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Shutting down a Vagrant VM
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vagrant halt
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Clearing up Vagrant VM disk space
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vagrant destroy
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Setting up services in a VM is tedious
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Consistency in your team?

5. Puppet
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Automate setting up VM services
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Some people like Chef
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Using “vagrant up” sets up EVERYTHING
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Using “vagrant provision” updates
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Consistency in your team!
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Version control your Puppet manifests
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Yuck, Another scripting language

6. PuPHPet (puphpet.com)
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Puff-pet, Pup-fete, Puppet PHP GUI
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Simplify all the things.
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https://puphpet.com

8. PuPHPet Configuration
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Server name
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awesome.dev ► http://awesome.dev:8080
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Edit your hosts file
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I'm a sucker for localhost
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http://localhost:8080
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Your browser would prefer
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http://site1.dev:8080 and http://site2.dev:8080

9. Localhost Change
apache::vhost { 'awesome.dev':
server_name => 'awesome.dev',
serveraliases => [],
docroot => '/var/www/',
port => '80',
env_variables => [],
priority => '1',
}
apache::vhost { 'default':
server_name => false,
serveraliases => [],
docroot => '/var/www/',
port => '80',
env_variables => [],
priority => '',
}

10. mod_rewrite
apache::vhost { 'default':
server_name => false,
serveraliases => [],
docroot => '/var/www/',
port => '80',
env_variables => [],
priority => '',
directory_allow_override = 'All'
}
https://gist.github.com/jimlind/6558297