[LRUG] Puppet Users

[mudge]

I wouldn't be entirely averse to presenting something about our
experiences with Puppet and some patterns we use specifically for
Rails application deployment (including installing RVM, managing
database.yml files that only sysadmins can see and testing things out
with Vagrant) if anyone is interested?

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:55 AM, gareth rushgrove
<gareth.rushgrove at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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