[p2pu-dev] New Development Scripts

[Dirk Uys]

This is awesome! I'm stoked to try it out!

Cheers
d

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Chris Ewald <chris at p2pu.org> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Letting everyone know that I am working on new workflow for our system
> administration. The technologies are Vagrant <http://vagrantup.com/> and
> Chef <http://www.opscode.com/chef/>. Two awesome technologies that will
> will take p2pu system administration into the future.
>
> Chef is config management tool that allows for automatic provisioning of a
> single server or a whole networked infrastructure. For us, we will start
> with just our web server hosting lernanta. I am writing chef 'recipes' to
> automatically build our lernanta server.
>
> This gives us two huge benefits:
>  - We will have a fool proof way to bring back a server if it goes down.
>  - The server system will be in sync with specific versions of our git
> lernanta - so say if we decide to switch to postgresql in the future, we
> will update the chef recipes to install postgres instead of mysql and still
> build the server with one command. And if you checkout old code, it will
> still build the server with mysql. :-)
>
> Combining this with vagrant will dramatically simplify our development
> environment setup. Our lernanta setup wiki -
> https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/wiki/Lernanta%27s-Setup-Install - will
> be replaced with 3 steps. Download virtualbox, download vagrant, >$ vagrant
> up. And that's it!
>
> This will lower the barrier of entry for new contributers. Coders will be
> able to jump right into lernanta code, rather than fumble with setting up a
> new ubuntu server. Awesome!
>
> I'll have more for soon. I hope to have this done and available for
> everyone to test and play with in tomorrow.
>
> Cheers
> Chris
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