[Cialug] Release Management

[Eric Junker]

Sounds like you are talking about Vagrant (http://www.vagrantup.com/) 
One of the benefits of Vagrant is that it encourages the use of a 
configuration management tool to automate the provisioning of the VM. It 
could be something as simple as a shell script or something more 
advanced such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible. I can't stress enough how 
important automation and reproducible environments are. We decided to 
write out own custom Puppet manifests but if you are doing web 
development I really like PuPHPet (https://puphpet.com/) which started 
out as PHP only but now supports Ruby, Node, and Python.

We use Jenkins for deployments. It really isn't that hard to setup. Well 
worth the time investment to have automated deploys.

Eric

On 8/22/14, 9:53 PM, Matt wrote:
> There are tools to auto-provision virtual machines (or even full virtual environments consisting of multiple VMs) that a developer could use to spin up a temporary dev environment on his own box.  Once the virtual env is up, he could use git to clone the codebase and test it to his heart's content before sending it to the "beta" dev env where QA gets to put it through its paces.
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> -- Matt (N0BOX)
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