[LRUG] Puppet Users

[gareth rushgrove]

On 22 June 2011 10:10, mudge <mudge at mudge.name> wrote:
> We've been using Puppet at Nature for a little while now and I'm keen
> to share techniques and best practices with others in the community.
>
> I'm also currently intrigued by something Gareth Rushgrove presented
> at Scottish Ruby Conference this year (slides at
> http://morethanseven.net/2011/04/02/Vagrant-at-the-guardian.html ):
> the idea of using configuration management such as Puppet or Chef for
> provisioning virtual machines with Vagrant to provide consistent
> development environments.
>

Shameless plug I know but here's the rather rapid lightning talk I gave.

http://confreaks.net/videos/579-scotlandruby2011-lightning-talks-part-2

I did a longer talk at FOSDEM this year on a similar subject, although
the audience was mainly sysadmin or operations folk rather than
developers:

http://www.slideshare.net/garethr/config-managament-for-development-environments-6836888

Even if Vagrant/virtualisation isn't for you, using Chef or Puppet to
manage local development environments is still a really good idea. You
can do it on OS X as well, some good links here:

http://jtimberman.posterous.com/managing-my-workstations-with-chef

Gareth

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:12 PM, John Arundel
> <john at bitfieldconsulting.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:44 PM, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com> wrote:
>>> With the help of the redoutable John Arundel, I've currently got over 200
>>> servers all being managed and coordinated by some puppet hackery. I'd be
>>> happy to swap notes and/or war stories in the pub.
>>> Hopefully, I'll be attending LRUG again, from the next one, so perhaps I'll
>>> see you there.
>>
>> Me too!
>>
>> *looks up redoutable to see if it's complimentary*
>>
>> I have also got an exciting Puppet book coming out soon which
>> specifically covers Rails, so of course I'll be plugging that
>> relentlessly.
>>
>> http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-cookbook
>>
>> Regards,
>> John
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