[LRUG] Puppet Users

[Murray Steele]

It sounds like there's some interest in hearing something more about Puppet.
 I've offered Mudge and George first refusal on a slot in July meeting
(11th) if the people I was already talking to fall through.  Otherwise we'll
hopefully hear about Puppet in the August meeting.

On 22 June 2011 17:57, Abdel A Saleh <abdel.a.saleh at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> Abdel
>
> On 22 June 2011 16:32, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd be very interested in that.
>>
>>
>> On 22 June 2011 13:09, mudge <mudge at mudge.name> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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