[Cialug] Release Management

[Matt]

Yeah, I couldn't quite remember the names of everything and what each thing does off the top of my head.  I did remember Puppet, Chef, and Ansible as names of programs that could provide some VM provisioning options.

Thanks for reminding me about Vagrant.  I now remember that it was something that could be used to produce an exact copy of your production (or any configured) environment in a new location (such as inside Virtualbox).  That way you could test your code changes before sending them down to QA.

Anyway, yes, that was what I was getting at.

-- Matt (N0BOX)

> On Aug 24, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Eric Junker <eric at eric.nu> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>> 
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