[colug-432] 2015-10-21 Vagrant Scribbles

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

LOPSA is having DevOpsDays Ohio 2015
2015-11-18 and 2015-11-19
The Bluestone 583 E Broad St
8 formal presentations?
more open spaces

2015-10-21 COLUG at Covermymeds

Joseph Beard presented about Vagrant
He uses VMware

Vagrant creates, manages, distributes
    portable development environments (in VMs)
linux guests (and newly Windows guests)
vagrant init hashicortp/precise64
    creates vagrant file, which is config file for VM

vagrant up
    reads config file, does complete setup of VM, ending with running VM
    takes time
defaults to same common key for all vagrant instances (NOT SECURE)
can generate unique keys if needed

vagrant ssh (ssh: into a running instance)
has full root access by default (NOT SECURE)

/vagrant is separate mount with persistence even after destroying VM
/vagrant/Vagrantfile is visible to machine using it

vagrant rdp (for into Windows with a remote desktop)

vagrant halt
    graceful shutdown (does not destroy)
(next) vagrant up
    just boots previously made VM

vagrant provision to redo provisioning
provisioning is the customization of a stock image
vagrant status
vagrant destroy (shuts down and delete VM)
vagrant destroy -f (to force it for misbehaving ?)
vagrant share
    allows others to acces the VM
    (handy for testers)

vagrant can be used in continuous ingregration

to deploy, use provisioning scripts same as vagrant used

vagrant eases dealing with multiple projects with conflicting dependencies

makes it easier to bring on a new developer

packer 
    makes tarball of VM
    can generate images for production for various hypervisors
        how relevant are those images for production
        considering vagrant's absence of security?

pgrep

vagrantcloud.com has many VM images
    seems to have been subsumed by atlas.hashicorp.com

As discussed recently on mailing list
Vagrant Up and Running
    is out of date
    ideas are good
    syntax is old version

also as discussed on mailing list
    hashicorp only documents current version
    dox are not available for previous versions

VMware plugin $80?
VMware $300?

vagrant repo
vagrant can be used with docker containers
he demonstrated such. it was fast

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writing script to go through directories,
find all the man pages and convert them to all the popular ebook formats

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